aql HQ hosts Cyber Security EU GDPR conference
Cyber Security EU returned to aql’s Leeds headquarters yesterday for its third annual conference – a deep dive into GDPR, the incoming regulations set to reshape the way organisations across the EU approach data privacy.
aql founder and CEO Prof. Adam Beaumont kicked off the conference by talking about the right to be forgotten in the age of the internet, and the impact of Brexit on the new EU regulations, noting: “The internet is a complicated thing and doesn’t have any concept of EU boundaries – Brexit will not be Brexit from GDPR.”
Topics of discussion for the 200 delegates included ‘how to steal an identity’, ‘how to get the Board to take GDPR seriously’ and ‘how good guys sharing threat intelligence is essential to data protection’.
GDPR (or the General Data Protection Regulation) puts in place detailed rules and regulations for how companies gather, share, store and destroy customer data, with fines of up to 4% of global turnover or €20 million (whichever is larger) for breaches. It comes into effect on 25th May 2018 and replaces 1998’s Data Protection Act.
As Gary Hibberd, Managing Director of boutique cyber security company Agenci and the conference’s organiser, put it: “This is not a compliance issue, it is a business issue”. “With the increase of data breaches reported in 2016 it should be no surprise that there is a need for greater data protection in our increasingly interconnected world. The changes are important because it places ‘accountability’ across its principals, meaning that if a company is found to be negligent in its management (or mismanagement) of data protection, then someone will be held accountable.”
Other speakers at CSE2017 included Carla Baker, Senior Manager, Government Affairs at Symantec UK; senior cybersecurity leader James McKinlay; and trauma therapist Catherine Knibbs, on the psychology of cyber-trauma.
For more information, visit www.cybersecurityeurope.com.
