Global InfoSec and Breach Standards
10 Citations•2016•
R. Heimes
IEEE Security & Privacy
The European Commission's General Data Protection Regulation offers contextual data security and breach notification standards applicable to organizations located or doing business in the EU that are compared to US and Canadian standards.
Abstract
The European Commission's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) offers contextual data security and breach notification standards applicable to organizations located or doing business in the EU. These regulations are compared to US and Canadian standards. Although each jurisdiction's regulations differ, they all account for situational risk and harm to individual data subjects and strongly encourage encryption.