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Skyhigh Networks Marks One Year to GDPR, the New Global Law on Data Protection, With Expanded Compliance Solutions, New eBookSkyhigh Networks, the world's leading Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), today marked the one-year countdown to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulation, with new management tools to understand GDPR compliance risks across shadow, sanctioned and custom cloud services, and implement controls to conform to the regulation. In addition, Skyhigh also made available a comprehensive eBook that outlines the steps organizations must take to comply with the new law, The GDPR: An Action Guide for IT. May 25, 2017 will mark one year until GDPR's implementation, which details how personally identifiable information (PII) on the EU's 500 million citizens - and for anyone globally who handles data on EU citizens - should be managed. The new regulation will also introduce larger fines, expanded liability and stricter data protection requirements. The new regulation has 99 articles and covers many forms of data risk. Being compliant to GDPR takes a mix of knowledge, processes, policies and training, as well as detailed understanding of data flows to and from cloud services, all coming from a "privacy first" IT philosophy. Skyhigh was one of the first CASBs to roll-out a GDPR focused solution designed to help businesses navigate this complex regulation, and today continues that global leadership with new offerings including:
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For more stories and to join the cloud security conversation, follow Skyhigh on The Cloud Security Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. About Skyhigh Skyhigh Networks, the world's leading Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), enables enterprises to safely adopt cloud services, while meeting their security, compliance and governance requirements. With more than 600 enterprise customers globally, Skyhigh provides organizations the visibility and management for all their cloud services, including enforcement of data loss prevention policies; detecting and preventing internal and external threats; encrypting data with customer-controlled keys; and implementing access-control policies. Headquartered in Campbell, Calif., Skyhigh Networks is backed by Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital (News - Alert), Thomvest Ventures, Tenaya Capital and other strategic investors. For more information, visit http://www.skyhighnetworks.com.
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