India Inc rushes to be GDPR-compliant

CHENNAI:With Friday being the D-Day for compliance with the data privacy regulation introduced by the EU, numerous corporates are rushing to make sure their businesses are compliant.

From seeking expert advice from security companies to getting their ground-level employees trained, a mammoth task has been cut out for corporates that have exposure to the EU region. For cybersecurity companies, it is a dual task. “Not only do we need to assist our clients, we also need to make sure we are GDPR-compliant,” said

Meerah Rajavel

, global CIO, Forcepoint.

The company started thinking about GDPR implications close to two years ago and decided to use their own products. From detecting breaches in forensic tools and user behaviour analytics, the security company has various offerings. Security companies have been flooded with training requests from corporates.

Manoj Jain

, founder and CEO,

Riskpro

India, said, “Most want a one-day awareness training on what GDPR is all about.” Security company

InfySec

has seen its training requests jump three times.

Veena Nimmagadda

, project manager, InfySec, said, “We have companies in banking and BPO space sending in employees for training.”

Jain of Riskpro India

is also of the opinion that GDPR trainings online and e-learning could do well during the next 12 months and has scope, and the company intends to build this soon.

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