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European Businesses need to take responsibility for the security of their data

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In the last year the issues around data loss and security have rapidly moved into the public arena. The Data Protection Act was introduced in 1998 to provide businesses with a set of guidelines to ensure that data is handled safely and securely. Covering everything from data processing to security, the Data Protection Act is extremely far reaching and has been interpreted and implemented in a variety of different ways by each country within the EU.

Given this wide scope and varied implementation it has become a near impossible task for regulatory bodies, such as the Information Commission in the UK, to track how businesses are handling their data. In order to rectify this situation a stronger onus has to be placed on businesses themselves to monitor, evaluate and assess their own data management and security.

Most organisations strive to make certain that they are compliant with legal policies which ensure the safe handling of sensitive information, yet many fail to take into account the threat resulting from their own employees’ practices, whether that be malicious or simply human error.

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