Companies from the UK and the EUROPEAN to North America are in a tough place. Now that GDPR is in full impact, and CCPA will soon end up being underway, every organization is clearly charged with protecting user information and responding appropriately when an information breach occurs.

That responsibility is never more challenging.

Case in point, earlier this year, the Western Data Protection Board (EDPB), a completely independent oversight committee created as part of the GDPR regulations, released its  first annual report   on data breaches within the EUROPEAN. In addition to levying $63 million within fines, the EDPB counted sixty-five, 000 data breach notifications within the law’ s first nine several weeks.

It’ s no wonder that there is the veritable exodus among IT protection leaders globally. According to  a recent survey , 82% of IT personnel feel burned away, and more than half consider giving up their job. Perhaps most notably, 63% of respondents are considering leaving the entirely.

Indeed, today’ s electronic landscape is replete with risks from every angle, and in many cases, the company’ s own employees are usually one of its biggest threats. As a 2018 study by the  Ponemon Institute   pointed out, “ Data breaches caused by reporters increase in frequency and cost. ” The specific tallies can vary, but unintended and malicious data misuse is without a doubt on the rise.

While more invasive plus in-depth control over employee’ s technologies might seem like an obvious solution, workers still have legal privacy rights, with no company wants to destroy employee comfort by conducting unnecessary or too much oversight.

Instead, companies need to hit a balance. On the one hand, they absolutely need to protect their customers’ data, plus, on the other hand, they need to preserve their employees’ privacy. Fortunately, these competing responsibilities are not antithetical to one another.

Here are 4 ways to leverage analytics and cleverness from monitoring insights to secure consumer data while protecting employee personal privacy.

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