On May 25, 2018, the European Union officially enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will have a transformative effect on how companies manage and secure personal data. GDPR marks the biggest change to EU data privacy laws in more than 20 years and applies to any organization worldwide that collects and stores personal EU citizen data such as health history, financial information, and the like. Other IT projects in full flight are likely to be encryption, breach detection, and breach prevention to ensure citizen data is appropriately protected.”]