A study by cloud-based data protection provider Druva surveyed 214 people worldwide at companies with 100 to 5,000 employees. Of those surveyed, 81 percent reported their business had government privacy compliance and regulation requirements to meet. 93 percent of companies reported that they found it difficult to ensure data privacy. Deema Freji, global privacy officer of security services provider Intralink, stresses the importance of C-suite executives investing in a CPO in 2016. Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will have a big impact on the way businesses evaluate privacy.”]
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