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Read Summary | Are You Prepared For A Data Leak? Get Your Emergency Response Plan Ready

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With the flow of data being increasingly difficult to monitor, and fines in the region of €35million being dished out under GDPR for employee monitoring and IT security failings, there are unlikely to be more expensive mistakes you could make.

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Dominic Offord
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With the flow of data being increasingly difficult to monitor, and fines in the region of €35million being dished out under GDPR for employee monitoring and IT security failings, there are unlikely to be more expensive mistakes you could make.

As in-house counsel you're expected to lead on your corporate strategy to address key risk issues. So we decided to create a series of relevant roundtable discussions to address the topics which keep you up at night and to help you develop real-life solutions, starting with data leaks.

On Wednesday 26 May we held a virtual event where our experts ran through a potential data leak scenario. They gave practical advice in order to address the problem from all angles.

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