Personal Data Privacy, Industry Data Regulations, and Data Security — Three Sides of the Same Coin

Using, storing, and sharing private data are necessary parts of doing business even while those data remain highly governed by regulators while at the same time being highly targeted by attackers. For years, organizations have tried to meet the regulatory and security demands of private data with some success as well as some failure. We explore the modern demands on private information from proactive data security, post-breach incident response, and industry regulatory requirements to the more recent consumer privacy requirements, all while highlighting public failure case studies and the questions business leaders should have been asking themselves to close inherent security gaps.