Private data security

Why 67% of companies fear they can't sustain privacy compliance

Data privacy management and protocol got a facelift with the enactments of the General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act. 

Many companies failed to meet compliance standards in time for GDPR. And for companies that met the deadline, 67% fear they won't be able to sustain compliance, according to Tanium.  

"People realize that they can be compliant one time — you can get ready for that audit and pass that audit. But the day after that audit is done, people go back to their day jobs," Chris Hallenbeck, CISO for the Americas at Tanium, told CIO Dive.  

That is the crux of the problem with compliance: Privacy requires business commitment as data travels and accumulates. Keeping track of data, wherever it migrates to, will keep companies compliant — not a privacy policy hidden at the bottom of a website.