Irish business must gear up for new data legislation

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is eight months away yet many organisations are seriously unprepared, writes Leanna Byrne

Fintan Swanton, senior consultant and managing director, Cygnus Consulting Pic: Maura Hickey

We are eight months away from May 2018, when the most significant overhaul of European data protection regulations in over 20 years will come into force. Are we ready? Not really, according to Fintan Swanton, managing director of Cygnus Consulting.

Swanton, who is the former president of the Irish Computer Society and Association for Data Protection Officers, regularly conducts data protection compliance audits with companies and organisations in the public and private sectors, ...