With the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance deadline of May 25, 2018, you’ve only got a few months to decide what, exactly, GDPR means for your company, your customers, and your employees.

Compliance with new data protection regulations is crucial to avoid legal liability, protect your brand, and preserve customer and employee confidence. Those who fail to meet compliance guidelines face heavy financial penalties.
GDPR doesn’t just affect European companies. Any business collecting and handling the personal data of EU citizens must comply even if they’re based outside the EU. As such, these changes bring new liabilities for the vast majority of businesses around the world.

If you meet any of the following criteria, GDPR affects you:

Today, your enterprise or organization probably has a plan for protecting your data from hackers and outside intruders, but that isn’t enough anymore. Most organizations have confidential information that they would like to keep safe from prying eyes.

Organizations need to identify and protect this sensitive information and prevent its accidental disclosure. They may also need to prove compliance to auditors.

You may need a DLP “data loss prevention” solution and here are 5 important reasons why :

Did you ever wonder: What if my office building burns or my servers are destroyed ? or What if my business’s data is lost or stolen? Can my business recover from a complete loss of my computer data?

A single incident can cost a lot in lost time and money and lost business
Sad but true. An IT disaster can happen to an enterprise of any size. Picture the scene: a water leak at your neighbor’s place and yours is flooded. Your IT servers and the electrical devices on your network are irretrievably damaged. Suddenly you have lost all the data that you stored on your file server and you didn’t backup to the Cloud. Or even worse, you mistakenly opened a suspicious email attachment and all your data has become unreadable because it is encrypted by ransomware.