PREFACE
“What? I've been working like this all my life! Now, you're telling me that I have to be GDP…umm…GD-whatever compliant?”
My friend and client, an immigration attorney from way back when “immigration” was not a dirty word, was angry. Her practice had been very successful over the years, dealing with all sorts of immigration issues across continents. The problem is that she is doing business with citizens of the European Union (EU). Worse, she has a partner in Athens, Greece, an EU-member country.
Fabulous! She must comply with the General Data Protection Regulation of the EU, better known by its acronym, GDPR. For those of you blissfully unaware of GDPR, it is a law passed by the European Union in 2016. It has far-reaching consequences to businesses worldwide, including yours!
If you are a businessperson who, like my friend, has no idea where to begin with GDPR, then this book is for you! It is the sequel to Cybersecurity Program Development for Business: The Essential Planning Guide (Wiley, 2018), and just like that book, this one is designed with you, a businessperson, in mind. In Cybersecurity, my goal was to give you enough information so that you wouldn't be at the mercy of experts talking over your head and around your business when it came to cybersecurity. In its introduction, I wrote:
What if there was a book that put the whole cybersecurity thing into perspective, using simple, direct language? What if there were sections and chapters explaining what is going ...
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