The rise of hybrid work has accelerated digital transformation for organizations of all sizes. As a result, more and more applications and data are moving to the cloud. While this has created a number of benefits — including cost savings, ease of access, and increased operational efficiencies — the cloud has also made it more challenging to protect sensitive data.

Data protection officers (DPOs) are often seen as secret weapons in an organisations’ operations arsenal. When done right, they can quickly and effectively make the headache of managing your data protection obligations go away – leaving you free to focus on running your business. But how do you know much DPO time you need? And why? That’s what I’m looking at in this blog.

When a company contracts or partners with a third party to handle and process its sensitive customer data, it is crucial for those third parties to use effective strategies to safeguard that data. Third parties should treat the data they handle from organizations as their own, complying with regulations and security requirements set by the organization.

Despite being the second-largest internet market in the world, India has yet to pass a comprehensive data privacy bill. It is important to have policies and regulations in place to protect them and their right to data privacy—a right that India’s Supreme Court recognized in 2017. Since then, the country’s government has been working towards passing a bill that codifies the rights of individuals to data privacy and protection.

With the rise of hybrid work, data leakage has become a significant issue. Employees are now working from a variety of locations, including their homes, coffee shops, and even public libraries. This makes it more difficult to keep track of data moving between managed endpoints and your organization's SaaS applications or private apps. Shadow IT, the use of unauthorized or unapproved software and services by employees has always been a challenge for IT departments.

In the modern, cloud-first era, traditional data protection technology approaches struggle to keep up. Data is rapidly growing in volume, variety, and velocity. It is becoming more and more unstructured, and therefore, harder to detect, and consequently, to protect.

When the Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A (Nevada Privacy Law) was first proposed, it only required businesses to notify consumers in the event of a data breach. Since then, the law has been expanded and amended on several occasions. Today, the law grants resident consumers various privacy rights and requires operators and data brokers to adhere to strict data protection regulations.

Any organization or agency that receives federal tax information (FTI) is now required to prove that their data protection policies meet IRS 1075 compliance standards. That means federal, state, county and local entities – as well as the contractors they employ – all fall within this scope.