GDPR compliance is no longer simply an IT or technology issue

“25th May – a day where Data will no longer be the same,” reiterates Ramesh Mamgain, Area Vice President, Commvault India & SAARC Region. “If you think it only affects your production data, it's much more complex than that. Managing your secondary data is probably the more difficult challenge for many companies. Organizations need to acknowledge that GDPR compliance is no longer simply an IT or technology issue. This is a chance to improve the efficiency of data governance. A holistic ‘People, Process and Technology’ mantra is still the way to achieve amidst the chaos of complying with increasing Data privacy laws around the globe.”

The implementation of the GDPR law in Europe has thus stimulated Indian companies to fortify their databases, leading to an upswing in the search for cyber security and privacy professionals. This has also resulted in an upsurge of job postings for cyber security roles. According to data from the job site, Indeed,cyber security job postings have risen up by 150% between January 2017 and March 2018, along with a corresponding increase of 129% in job searches for the same in the same period. Between January 2017 and March 2018, there has also been a spike in the number of job postings for Data Protection roles, which have seen an increase of 143%, while the number of job searches for the same have risen by 188%.