Posts Categorized in Audit & Compliance

As the pace of software and database development increases, so audit and compliance become even more important. Companies and organizations need to ensure they follow stringent regulatory requirements, while remaining competitive. Redgate is actively researching the topic to discover where the pain points are and develop solutions to resolve them.

Join the leading experts in data governance and SQL Server at Redgate’s SQL Privacy Summit

The GDPR is almost here and, just one week before it’s launch, Redgate is hosting the first SQL Privacy Summit in London. The schedule of presentations, panel discussions and workshops has been created to help SQL Server professionals ensure their business meets the new data privacy and protection regulations. On Friday 18 May, the... Read more

Richard Macaskill

14 February 2018

Richard Macaskill

14 February 2018

So what is a Data Protection Impact Assessment and why should organizations care?

If you’ve read anything about the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you’ll probably have seen the phrase Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) used. It’s similar to the current Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) already in place in countries like the UK and a DPIA is expected to address four areas: A description of the... Read more

Alex Yates

5 December 2017

Alex Yates

5 December 2017

Redgate and DLM Consultants: Working together to help data users become GDPR compliant

If you hold ‘personally identifiable information’ (PII) about EU citizens, the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to you. That’s true even if you aren’t in the EU, since this law is extra-territorial. This is significant for various reasons, including the fact that the maximum penalties for failing to comply would probably bankrupt... Read more

Kate Duggan

17 November 2017

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Kate Duggan

17 November 2017

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Redgate data governance survey reveals database DevOps is the key to GDPR compliance

A major new data governance survey from Redgate demonstrates there are important GDPR compliance issues that need to be addressed – and that a DevOps approach to database development can provide the answers. A first glimpse into the results of the 2017 Data Governance Implementation survey, which questioned more than 500 SQL Server professionals,... Read more

Richard Macaskill

18 September 2017

Richard Macaskill

18 September 2017

So what is GDPR, and why should Database Administrators care?

Updated November 2018 You’ve no doubt heard at least something about the GDPR, the EU’s new privacy and Data Management law with its greatly increased maximum fines for non-compliance and tighter definitions for acceptable use of personal information. It came into effect in May 2018. If you’ve continued reading past paragraph one of any... Read more

How might classification and better documentation improve data safety?

In this post, we imagine how auto-classification of data can be used to build better documentation that helps you trust that your organization can use data without posing a risk or compromising regulatory compliance. You may have read recently about how we’ve spent the last month exploring the theme of data classification in Foundry,... Read more