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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.

Alex Yates

20 June 2018

Alex Yates

20 June 2018

Traditional database security doesn’t protect data

It seems every week there’s a new data breach to read (or tweet) about. I recently discovered this lovely visualization of the growing amount of private data about people like you and me that is being exposed. You can filter and/or sort the data by industry sector, method of leak… Read more

Data privacy and protection

database security

Richard Macaskill

8 June 2018

Richard Macaskill

8 June 2018

Welcome to the new world of curating data, not owning it

Faced with the new challenges of data protection – and increased levels of oversight – many of us working with SQL Server have come to the same conclusion. Quite simply, the column names and free text descriptions available to us to describe the data in our care (or data-containing artefacts… Read more

1 May 2018

1 May 2018

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… Read more

26 April 2018

26 April 2018

So what is data mapping and why is it the key to GDPR compliance?

I’ve read a lot about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) because I’m interested in it both from a professional and personal perspective. I’ve been working with data, as an IT manager in financial services and as a product manager in a data software company, for over 20 years and… Read more

14 February 2018

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:… Read more

Data Protection Impact Assessment

5 December 2017

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… Read more

GDPR

Kate Duggan

17 November 2017

Kate Duggan

17 November 2017

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… Read more

27 October 2017

27 October 2017

So what is GDPR, and why should your customers care?

Updated November 2018 GDPR is here. Initially the articles leading up to the law were industry-focused, talking about the affect it would have on companies and organizations that gather, hold and process data. I also wrote about why DBAs should care about it, and advised that you should start your… Read more

GDPR

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… Read more

27 July 2017

27 July 2017

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… Read more

data classification

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