F5 PRO ASSETS We’ve created these Pro Assets to help you communicate the ideas in this article to your team. Feel free to remove these intro pages, and use them as your own.

HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE NEW EUROPEAN UNION PRIVACY LAWS

The GDPR, the EU’s new privacy rules, are going into effect by May 2018. Here’s how to make sure we’re ready.

How to prepare for new EU rules: Incorporate data protection into our culture Put someone in charge Take only what we need Audit, adapt, repeat 1. Incorporate data protection into your culture Data protection should be part of every company’s culture, not just to meet GDPR requirements, but because it’s a good basic practice. Forgoing data protection will only make the GDPR requirements more onerous. Besides, ignoring our customers’ privacy is not a good long-term strategy. It increases the chance that our business will run afoul of the law or suffer the wrath of angry customers. And there’s always the chance we’ll make headlines in a way we didn’t intend. 2. Put someone in charge The GDPR requires some businesses to have a data protection officer who is responsible for ensuring that a company is in compliance. The data protection officer may lead impact assessments and maintain mandated documentation, among other requirements.  3. Take only what you need There’s another way to clear the privacy bar on data: don’t collect it in the first place. If we’re processing or storing PII you don’t need, stop. Minimizing the data we’re collecting means less to protect. 4. Audit, adapt, repeat Industry news often seems like a roll call of companies that at one time complied with data-protection regulations—HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS, or GLBA—but still found themselves breached. Testing our applications and infrastructure early and often to make sure they comply with GDPR and any other data protection regulations is good practice. Every change to infrastructure and business processes should be examined to gauge its impact on our compliance.

Regulations like the GDPR highlight the need to be familiar with compliance. While 2018 may seem like a long way off, we should start looking at the regulations today.

Read the full article: https://wemakeappsgo.f5.com/business- strategy/how-to-prepare-your-company-for-the- new-european-union-privacy-laws/ More F5 Pro Assets: https://wemakeappsgo.f5.com/pro-assets/