Protecting yourself is best done by adopting a proactive approach

John Ryan of Zinopy says the advent of GDPR is changing firms’ mindsets, writes Quinton O’Reilly

John Ryan, chief executive of Zinopy: ‘We were one of the first companies to bring firewalls into the country’

The best defence is a proactive approach, and Zinopy has equipped itself with the means to do this.

“[Businesses] can’t abdicate their responsibilities; we monitor their environment but they’re responsible for the consequences,” says John Ryan, chief executive of Zinopy. “We use the analogy of the alarm system, the alarm being the technology and the monitoring being us, but then the customer has got to go and change the locks if the keys ...