When it comes to taking part in the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules, there is a lot to take into account. Say, for example, your business was to suffer from a loss of data and you had to use a data recovery system to get it back. Do this the wrong way, and you could be breaking GDPR rules and putting your business under needless pressure and risk to do so.
If you would like to avoid that issue, then we recommend that you take some extra time to read over these smart ways to recover data under GDPR regulations. Often a bit of a challenge at the best of times, the regulatory shift caused by GDPR means you need to be smarter than ever. What, then, should you do to initiate data recover as soon as possible?
Understanding your data
The first and most important challenge is knowing what kind of data you even have in the first place. Many people do not know what kind of data that they have. This means that your data might be stored across numerous different formats and in various locations, much of which might be GDPR-applicable.
For that reason, work out the kind of data that you have/had, and then you can work backwards to find a stable solution. Make sure that you take a look at each department of your business, as you’ll find all-manner of GDPR-required data hidden away.
Take testing extremely seriously
To help make sure that you can carry out data recovery swiftly and safely, be sure to strenuously test all of your data protection avenues. Try out every part of the process, and you will soon spot problems in the process which could be contributing – even indirectly – to the data being lost in the first place.
You should make sure that you are very clear and quick to look at where the problem lies on your end. It’s rare that the problem is caused by a third party, so go through rigorous testing to find the source.
Tell the customer
When you need to recover data, you have 72-hours to tell everyone about the problem. You need to alert all of your users as well as the authorities about what has happened. You have a three day (roughly) grace period to come up with a recovery plan and then make sure you have a plan of recovery that will both recover from the data loss and ensure that future loss/theft is not likely to take place.
In the past, you could simply pretend nothing happened. Today? You must be open and honest with anyone using your businesses services.
Create a clear process
With your guilt admitted and the people aware you are in the process of building a solution, you now need to document that process in full. Working with your data compliance officer, you can come up with a disaster recovery plan which is going to be GDPR friendly and put to work in a timely and professional manner.
For that reason, we recommend that you spend as much time as you can working on a timely and professional recovery. Agree a strategy that reduces risk of the same problem taking place in the future, too.
Find the source of the data loss
First off, you need to take a closer look at where the point of failure has started. You should look to find the point of failure and then remove it as soon as you can. with a data recovery plan at the moment, though, you might not be fully GDPR-compliant.
We recommend that you spend some more time undergoing a data recovery plan to make sure you can find out where the data is being lost, stolen or corrupted. What you use at present for data recovery may no longer be sufficient under GDPR.
Improve security processes
GDPR regulations means that if a breach does happen, serious changes are needed in terms of how you operate and where. We recommend that you spend some more time looking at trying to improve your security process after a data loss or data breach.
From undertaking GDPR compliant tools like dynamic data masking and/or encryption of personal data, you can do a lot more to make sure that data is much harder to personally identify to a person. Do that, and you will be much more likely to develop a fully operational data protection solution that works to the exact standards that you need.
Online Shopping Ireland have provided an extensive infographic on GDPR below titled “55 Thing You Need To Know About GDPR”;
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