European Unions General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will lead to stronger connections among and between security and privacy professionals, as well as more extensive cross-functional enterprise collaborations. GDPR marks an important step forward for data privacy, says ISACA’s own 2014 research showed that a whopping 94% of respondents were concerned about the decreasing level of personal privacy. By incorporating both privacy by design and security by design at these early stages, cost savings are realized by avoiding costly fixes once products are introduced.”]