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60% OF THE
OVERALL SAMPLE
(UK: 53%) SAY
THEIR BUSINESS
HAS FULLY
ADOPTED ALL
GDPR MEASURES,
WITH JUST 4%
STILL TO BEGIN
THE PROCESS
(UK: 10%).
respondents invested between £42,629
and £127,886. A further 25% said their
company’s investment was over £127,887.
The country that invested the most to meet
its GDPR requirements was Italy, with 34.5%
of Italian organisations investing over
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£127,887, followed by Germany (31.5%).
The UK invested the least, with only 12.5%
of UK respondents saying their company’s
investment was over £127,887.
Rafi Kretchmer, Head of Product Marketing
at Check Point Software, said: “What’s clear
from this research is that many European
organisations have made significant
progress in implementing the steps
required to become GDPR compliant. And
quite a few are already seeing powerful
benefits. But for many firms, there’s still
a lot that can be done. It’s important for
organisations to adopt robust frameworks
to meet the demands of GDPR, rather
than simply shutting down access to tools
and platforms that both employees and
customers want to use – like mobile devices
and the cloud. There are relatively easy-
to-integrate methods of keeping data safe
– such as document encryption and hard
drive encryption. These approaches can
ensure sensitive business data is protected,
preventing data leaks and unauthorised
access to data.”
GDPR’s main aim is to protect private data,
so cloud solutions came under scrutiny.
Overall, 83% of those polled said their
organisation uses cloud solutions.
But many are more cautious about how
the cloud is employed following GDPR’s
introduction. Just 7% of companies took
the drastic measure of ceasing to use cloud
solutions altogether as a result of GDPR. The
three most-anticipated long-term benefits of
GDPR were found to be:
• Helping organisations demonstrate their
focus on customers’ data and increasing
loyalty (45%)
• Making operations more efficient,
especially regarding cybersecurity (44%)
• Providing a more comprehensive view
on the information processed by the
company (40%)
However, nearly 13% overall believe
that GDPR won’t bring any benefits to
their business at all. The countries most
pessimistic about GDPR’s benefits were
Germany and the UK, with 21.5% and 20%
of respondents stating that GDPR will not
bring benefits. Respondents from Spain
(3.5%) and Italy (6%) were more optimistic
about GDPR benefits. n
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