EDITOR’S QUESTION
ARE BUSINESSES
GOING TO COMPLY WITH
THE REQUIREMENTS
OF GDPR?
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M
imecast Limited, a leading email
and data security company, has
announced its commitment to
helping customers comply with the General
Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a new
European privacy regulation due to take
effect on May 25, 2018.
As part of this commitment, Mimecast
recently announced that Marc French has
joined the leadership team as the company’s
Chief Trust Officer and Data Protection
Officer (DPO), driving the company’s efforts
to support GDPR. Today, Mimecast provides
additional GDPR-related assurances in its
contracts with impacted customers who have
personal data of EU residents.
The added controls that GDPR gives to
individuals over how their personal data is
used impacts organisations globally, as it
imposes new obligations on companies and
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government agencies that market, track, or
handle the personal data of EU residents.
Organisations must have appropriate
technology and processes in place to help
secure the data and manage live and
archived copies meticulously. Hefty penalties
can be levied against those organisations
that don’t comply.
An August 2017 Gartner report, GDPR
Clarity: 19 Frequently Asked Questions
Answered by Bart Willemsen, (29 August
2017), stated: “On 25 May 2018, less than
50% of all organisations impacted will
fully comply with the GDPR.” Mimecast is
committed to GDPR compliance across its
solutions and products when enforcement
of the law comes into effect on May 25
2018. Mimecast’s portfolio of robust, cloud-
based, cyber-resilience services for email
can help its customers with strategies for
GDPR compliance.
“Among other things, every GDPR
compliance strategy needs to adequately
address the security, archiving and
availability challenges of email. New
attacks threaten data security every day,
while employees will increasingly need
controlled and always-on access to perform
fast searches of email archives,” said Marc
French, Senior Vice President and Chief
Trust Officer at Mimecast.
“In addition to evolving our cloud services
to align with new privacy policies and cyber
resilience requirements, Mimecast has
implemented security and data protection
measures that span the technology,
operations and legal aspects to help
protect customer data, including GDPR. We
constantly undertake and maintain numerous
certifications and audit reports to provide
transparency and communicate internal
controls to our customers and partners.”
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