With only a few weeks to go, resellers should be flat out offering their clients get prepared for GDPR
GDPR is supposed to be implimented by 25 May after which organisations could face fines of up to €20 million or as much as four percent of worldwide annual turnover if they have not got it set up
It is unlikely that more than 25 percent of businesses in the UK (and across the EU) will be fully compliant in time for the May deadline.
Many companies have left it late but if resellers pull their fingers out they could still make the deadline. The problem is mostly smaller-sized businesses as many large organisations will have employed dedicated GDPR-compliance roles to their ranks.
Basically it is not too difficult to set up companies need to know where information is held, how it moves through the business and what it’s used for.
Smaller-sized businesses are more likely to be reliant on channel partners for much of their IT requirements, so GDPR should be a good opportunity for them as well. There’s real scope for the channel to support customers.
Businesses need to map their environment and establish a data asset register of what sensitive data is held and where. Vendors can help by providing the channel with the skills they need to help customers prepare. Channel partners can be helping to provide a risk assessment. These assessments have helped thousands of companies to identify where all their sensitive, overexposed and classified data is located within the organisation.
