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TRENDING
GDPR IS TRANSFORMING
CONSUMER TRUST AND
DATA SECURITY IN EUROPE,
ACCORDING TO CHECK
POINT SURVEY
With GDPR hitting the headlines more regularly than
anticipated, businesses are coming to terms with the
harsh reality of a failure to comply with the regulation.
A survey by Check Point, based on results from 1,000
CTOs, CIOs, IT managers and security managers from
across the region, discovers GDPR’s effectiveness.
N
ew research commissioned by Check
Point shows that GDPR is delivering
a strong positive effect overall
for European businesses – but with some
significant variations between countries in
terms of adopting GDPR measures. Check
Point has also developed a new free online
tool called GDPRate to guide businesses
through the essential components of an
effective GDPR compliance strategy.
The study of 1,000 CTOs, CIOs, IT
managers and security managers in France,
Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK sought to
understand how European companies have
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addressed the requirements of GDPR. It
revealed that 74% of organisations overall
(UK respondents: 58%) believe GDPR has
had a beneficial impact on consumer trust,
and 73% claim it has boosted their data
security (UK: 54%).
60% of the overall sample (UK: 53%) say
their business has fully adopted all GDPR
measures, with just 4% still to begin the
process (UK: 10%). When asked to rate
their performance in dealing with GDPR
requirements on a scale from 0 to 10 (0 is
‘not at all’ and 10 is ‘totally’), the average
score was an optimistic 7.91 (UK: 6.55).
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THE STUDY
REVEALS THAT
SIGNIFICANT
PROGRESS HAS
BEEN MADE
ACROSS EUROPE
TOWARDS GDPR
COMPLIANCE.
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