GDPR Academy launches comprehensive online GDPR and Cyber Security course

e-Learning course assists with GDPR compliance and helps combat cyber threats

 The GDPR Academy today announced its e-Learning programme for organisations to prepare for the new GDPR regulations which come into effect on 25th May 2018. GDPR regulates the holding of personal data and includes significant new obligations for businesses.

Training for GDPR

Training is an essential element for an organisation to be compliant with GDPR. Well-trained personnel are less likely to make mistakes and cause a breach of personal data. e-Learning is the perfect way for managers to ensure all staff obtain the training they require in convenient bite size chunks.

The GDPR Academy provides up to date information about GDPR. GDPR Academy courses combine video, animations, infographics and downloadable technical documents combined with multiple choice quizzes to ensure a topic has been successfully learned.

Businesses need to identify that all personal data that they hold in relation to staff, clients, prospects and suppliers is not only secure but that it is GDPR compliant. All organisations must demonstrate that they have a data protection policy, including a data protection breach policy as a breach must be notified to the ICO within 72 hours of occurrence.

Cyber protection

Cyber security is an integral part of protection against a data breach. Protection against cybercrime is as much based on the human element as it is on technological solutions. A firm’s defences are only as strong as the weakest element and a junior person clicking on a malware link can infect the whole organisation’s system and leave it vulnerable to a cyber hack. Training is of the utmost importance, and by taking the GDPR Academy’s e-Learning course a firm’s training can be continually monitored, thus affording the business a measure of accountable protection against the consequences of any breach.

GDPR readiness will bring benefits to your business

 Good governance aids good practice and organisations that are prepared for GDPR and best protected against cyber threats by demonstrating their compliance with policies, training and management will use this governance to run their businesses more smoothly and take advantage of the new regulations. Early compliance with GDPR positions firms to win business where an incumbent supplier has failed to embrace the new regulations.