The ongoing changes in the digital space during the last decade eventually brought privacy concern into new legislation requiring organizations to run Privacy and Data Protection Impact Assessments.

In the automotive industry, a lot of sensitive information is handled daily, such as personal data, technical data, supplier data, and business information. To safeguard this data from being accessed, changed, or destroyed without permission, a strong security strategy is crucial.

While countless gigabytes of private data end up scattered across on-site, cloud, hybrid, and third-party systems, data privacy laws continue to grant broad rights to personal data owners. Now users can request to get a copy or update it, ask to have their data deleted or restricted. What will the future of privacy be like?

Organizations are taking a risk-based approach to information security and compliance that enables them to bypass the need for an in-depth evaluation and analysis of every new threat. It introduces a systematic risk analysis management that aims to foresee new threats and take preventative action.

With GDPR coming into action in 2018, companies faced a number of requirements. One of them was the obligatory keeping of a record of processing activities (RoPA). Learn who needs to do it, what should be documented, and its best possible ways.