COVER STORY
This is alongside regular speaking
engagements that he holds internally
on data protection, social media safety,
social engineering and other relevant
infosecurity and compliance topics.
He emerged as a pioneer in his field
when he proactively took interest in the
GDPR mid-2016, months before many
UK organisations would have even been
aware of its existence.
He became an intrinsic part of a
working group within Veolia that was
planning for GDPR compliance; stepping
forward as the project manager for
GDPR, working hand in hand with the
head of the legal team.
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We can see the
main difference
and it ticks all the
compliance boxes
as well which is
important for us. It
really works for us. Officer (DPO) for Veolia UK and Ireland.
A large part of this role is ensuring
that Veolia’s end users received
cybersecurity awareness and training.
This led naturally to Hield being
assigned the position of Data Protection Unfortunately, end-users did not really
engage with these methods, with emails
Testing solutions
Hield’s team trialled many different
cybersecurity training and awareness
methods. Among other things they
trialled email-based education –
sending employees infographics
and statistics; uploading blogs onto
a shared intranet and uploading
information onto Google Communities.
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