Almost every organization depends on cloud services to meet its technology needs in an agile and cost-effective manner. On-demand access to cloud-based, Platform and Infrastructure as a Service tools provides IT professionals with the ability to quickly provision resources and better meet business requirements.

At the same time, cybersecurity professionals know that this flexibility brings security management challenges. It’s difficult to implement security policies across these disparate systems, or even just keep tabs on evolving usage across many different cloud service providers.

CDW’s Cloud Check service is a complimentary offering that provides CDW customers with access to cloud security posture management (CSPM) solutions that help them inventory their cloud deployments and analyze them for security issues. I’d like to share three stories that illustrate the value that CDW Cloud Check can bring to organizations across industries.

Today’s privacy environment is far different from the landscape that businesses faced only a few years ago. This movement began in the European Union, which in 2018 replaced its existing privacy rules with the General Data Protection Regulation. This sweeping privacy law provided broad worldwide protection for the personal information of EU residents. GDPR’s reach spread well beyond the European continent, as almost every large American company has some business presence in Europe. Organizations scrambled to understand the impact of these new regulations and update their European-facing websites to comply with the new standards.

In July 2020, privacy regulations hit closer to home when enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act began. CCPA provides GDPR-style protections to residents of California. Due to the difficulty of segregating information about California residents, most companies are choosing to apply CCPA standards to all of their customer information. In fact, many privacy experts suspect that other states will soon follow California’s example and pass their own consumer privacy legislation.

Here are a few things that you can do to make sure that your organization is ready for these new regulations and whatever is next on the privacy horizon.

While regulatory compliance is nothing new to cybersecurity professionals, many organizations still have concerns about their compliance with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the rollout of the California Consumer Privacy Act.

Many of the same security controls that organizations measure to demonstrate compliance with regulations such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard and HIPAA, or even security due diligence, will serve those organizations well as they seek to establish programs that are GDPR and CCPA compliant.

Let’s take a look at some simple things that you can do to either shore up your existing privacy program or establish a new one.

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