CA Technologies Study Highlights Gaps in Use of Personal Data in Evolving Regulatory Landscape
November 10 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
More Than 90 Percent of Organizations Report
the EU General Data Protection Regulation Will Impact the Way they
Collect, Use and Process Personal Data
A study commissioned by CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) found that
current application test data management practices are not adequate
to meet the compliance requirements of the EU General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR). In fact, only 31 percent of
respondents believed that their organizations’ current testing
practices fully comply with the GDPR, which will affect any
business that handles European personal data.
“With businesses across all industries increasingly expanding
their global presence, the impact of new regulations such as the
GDPR is going to be felt more quickly and intensely than many
realize,” said Jeff Scheaffer, general manager, Continuous
Delivery, CA Technologies. “GDPR’s definition of personal data,
combined with high fines – €20 million or 4 percent of an
organization’s global annual revenue, whichever is greater – should
put IT and application teams on high alert to safeguard personal
data across both development and testing environments.”
In the study titled “EU General Data Protection Regulation: Are
you ready for it?,” the majority of respondents were not completely
confident that their organization could meet two of the key
provisions of the GDPR known as the “Right to be Forgotten” and the
“Right to Data Portability.” When it came to identifying, erasing
and providing customers with their data:
- Only 33 percent were very confident
that every piece of customer data could be identified promptly
across all systems and applications.
- Only 34 percent are completely
confident that their organization can erase every instance of a
customer’s (test) data without delay.
- Less than half (43 percent) would be
fully able to provide a customer with their data in a format
accessible by them and transmissible to other formats, and
- A surprising 10 percent currently say
that they cannot do this at all.
The study also found that organizations will need to change core
processes with more than 90 percent of respondents reporting that
the regulation will impact how they collect, transfer, use,
process, store and send/receive personal data outside the EU. The
top technological challenges identified by 88 percent of survey
participants as a potential risk to GDPR compliance include:
- sensitive data stored inconsistently
(54 percent)
- multiple copies of production data
stored across the corporate network (48 percent)
- technical debt or poorly understood
data models (30 percent)
- ad hoc sharing of test data across
personal test machines (25 percent)
To meet the GDPR’s May 25, 2018 deadline, almost nine in ten (89
percent) businesses stated that they need to invest in new
technologies and services that include encryption (58 percent),
analytic and reporting (49 percent) and test data management (47
percent) technologies.
“To ensure businesses can continue to trade and compete in
today’s digital world, companies that have significant dealings
with the EU and its citizens need to reevaluate their approach to
managing test data sets and invest in the processes and tools that
will ensure they meet the GDPR compliance standards,” continued
Scheaffer.
CA Technologies continues to help customers address GDPR
requirements through its broad portfolio that includes test data
management, security, API management and mainframe solutions. These
innovations enable organizations to confidently embark on their
compliance journey to protect data in mainframe, distributed, cloud
and mobile environments. For more information visit,
http://www.ca.com/gdpr.
Resources
- Infographic
- Complying with the EU General Data
Protection Regulation: The Implications for Test Data Management
eBook
- Learn more at CA World, November 14-18
in Las Vegas, NV
Study Methodology
Vanson Bourne conducted the CA Technologies-sponsored study of
200 IT, and risk and compliance decision makers in the US and UK at
enterprise organizations with revenues of over $1 billion or more
in financial services, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications
and public sector industries. For additional details, see the
report “EU General Data Protection Regulation: Are you ready for
it?”
About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) creates software that fuels
transformation for companies and enables them to seize the
opportunities of the application economy. Software is at the heart
of every business in every industry. From planning, to development,
to management and security, CA is working with companies worldwide
to change the way we live, transact, and communicate – across
mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe
environments. Learn more at www.ca.com.
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