Just announced -- The Security Executive Council, a risk mitigation research and services organization for senior security and risk executives, and DataGuidance, provider of services aimed at simplifying data protection and privacy compliance, have entered into a strategic alliance that will benefit both their constituencies.
DataGuidance has built an extensive, searchable, international database of legislation, official guidance and codes of practice relating to data protection and privacy. The company also provides expert analysis of the issues in countries all around the world. “Like all of the Security Executive Council’s strategic alliance partners, DataGuidance is a one-of-a-kind provider of services critical to corporations and corporate security executives,” said Bob Hayes, managing director of the Security Executive Council.
Security executives within and outside the Council community have voiced a need for assistance identifying and understanding security regulations and legislation, including privacy compliance. That’s why the Council maintains a growing list of primarily
Lindsey Greig, managing editor of DataGuidance, said: “DataGuidance combines privacy expertise and technological innovation with editorial excellence to produce a global privacy compliance tool that matches the challenge of a global marketplace. We look forward to working with the Security Executive Council to assist companies and organizations develop best practices which place the protection of customer data and privacy at the heart of their activities.”
About the Security Executive Council
The Security Executive Council is a “blue ocean” strategy based research and services organization comprised of all types of risk mitigation leaders. Its strategic alliances include forward thinking agencies, media companies, universities, NGOs, innovative solution providers and industry groups. Backed by a faculty of hundreds of successful current and former security practitioners the Council creates ground breaking research that is a Collective Knowledge foundation for its deliverables. The Council is quickly becoming the foremost voice on organizational risk mitigation leadership; its work has been widely cited in industry publications ranging from all the major security trade magazines to business publications such as Forbes and Harvard Business Review. The Council as created numerous ways to participate and benefit, visit: www.securityexecutivecouncil.com.
About DataGuidance
DataGuidance, the global platform for data protection and privacy compliance, has been created with a single aim: to make data protection and privacy compliance simpler. It brings together legislation, official guidance and codes of practice in one place as well as provides DataGuidance Notes, written by data protection experts, in a simple language, on key issues such as e-mail marketing, employee monitoring and data breaches. For more information, visit www.dataguidance.com.