GDPR is the current buzzword across a lot of industries right now. Your Linkedin and Twitter feeds are full of soothsayers predicting the end of the world unless you sign up for their solution that will make your company GDPR compliant. Sadly it is not as simple as that, there is no GDPR silver bullet.

In the many industries, you can already see solutions being sold around alleviating the worry surrounding GDPR and the fines it could bring. The fines are very real but the premise behind GDPR makes complete sense. In this modern age, companies and individuals need to be aware of what information they hold, where it lives and who has access to it. GDPR is designed to encourage organisations to consider the security of their own systems and safety of their customer’s data first and foremost.

So, how can PaperCut help?

PaperCut’s features can assist any organisation with their compliance requirements. By using one or all of the tools available your organisation can increase the security of print and copy documents to further comply with the new regulations.

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GDPR presents a huge opportunity for PaperCut resellers to add value to their services by offering a solution to assist with GDPR compliance. Within hours of 17.2 being released (with extra GDPR functionality), resellers were asking the right questions and praising PaperCut for the foresight to take GDPR seriously.

Is it enough?

Short of banning phones (or “Men In Black” style memory erasers) and employing security teams to follow each document around the building until it is destroyed all you can do is have accountability. It is also vital to write up the processes you have in place to show you are making best efforts to keep data safe.

GDPR is a beast but tameable – At its heart the intentions are honourable. We firmly believe solutions like PaperCut can assist any organisation in their GDPR journey but we highly recommend starting with education. Educate staff at all levels from basement to boardroom to think about what data they hold and where it is. We do not claim to be experts (who can yet?) but, if you wish to chat about GDPR and PaperCut just get in touch.

*Update July 2017*

Since writing this blog post PaperCut (being the forward-thinking company they are) have created a GDPR Compliance Guide.

This guide is aimed at providing a detailed breakdown of critical considerations when seeking to make your print system GDPR compliant. To download the guide click the image below.