Having to operationalize privacy caught many organizations unprepared. Thus, Gartner experienced a tremendous spike in client inquiry regarding GDPR preparations, with a 400% increase over the previous year.

In preparing for various privacy regulations, security and risk management leaders should review this report to review a set of balanced controls for privacy and security in the implementation of five key technologies.

Is your data security practice all that it should be? This ebook looks at five of the most prevalent and avoidable data security missteps organizations are making today, and how these "common pitfalls" can result in potentially disastrous attacks.

With ransomware attacks and data breaches on the rise, it is critical that today’s business leaders take action to ensure that their most critical data is protected. Data encryption should be the first and last line of defense—encoding your sensitive data and rendering it unusable in the event of a data breach.

IBM Security Guardium Data Encryption and IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager can help protect your data no matter where it resides, on-premises and across cloud environments, in applications, containers and Teradata environments. Our best-in-class solutions allow you to encrypt and tokenize your data; create, rotate and manage all of your encryption keys; and manage user access policies.

As firms face a growing list of data protection regulations and customers become more knowledgeable about their privacy rights, developing a data privacy competence has never been more important. Sustained compliance delivers a number of benefits, but firms with reactive and siloed privacy tactics will fail to capitalize on them.

Forrester Consulting evaluates the state of enterprises’ data privacy compliance in a shifting regulatory landscape by surveying global enterprise decision makers with responsibility over privacy or data protection. This report analyzes how they are evolving to meet the heightened data protection and privacy expectations of legislators and consumers, along with the benefits they can expect from a holistic data privacy approach.

This white paper highlights how organizations can adopt a next generation data security strategy that bridges security technologies deployed across heterogeneous and highly distributed environments. Organizations are lacking a centralized view of their data security risk posture, compounded by the complexity of managing security across distributed environments. This lack of visibility results in an ineffective way of prioritizing alerts and assessing the business impact of lost or stolen data assets. Taking a holistic approach affords organizations a comprehensive view of existing security risks to sensitive data.