Gareth Braithwaite, Group IT
Director at Barratt Developments
industry unlocked
The construction sector is subject to the same
cyber-risks and regulatory requirements as
every other industry vertical. We explore how UK
housebuilder Barratt Developments has worked
with SureCloud to ensure GDPR compliance while
Luke Potter, Cybersecurity Practice Director,
SureCloud, highlights some of the key risks to
the construction industry and offers some best
practice advice to CISOs.
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UK housebuilder Barratt Developments plc has
deployed the SureCloud GDPR Suite to enable
the business to work towards GDPR compliance
effectively, after the EU regulation came into
force last year.
been impressed by the flexibility and
performance of the platform and the
ability to document our data map
across many areas of the business.”
Barratt selected the SureCloud GDPR Suite,
which is delivered from SureCloud’s cloud-
based enterprise GRC platform, after the solution
demonstrated its ability to provide full visibility for
management and automation of GDPR processes
across the organisation.
The platform replaces the developer’s highly
manual processes that required multiple systems,
enabling simple real-time risk, incident and
compliance management from a single dashboard.
Gareth Braithwaite, Group IT Director at Barratt
Developments, said: “Ahead of enforcement in
May 2018 it was clear that our manual efforts
to achieve GDPR compliance were not only
resource-intensive but also susceptible to
spreadsheet error.
“The SureCloud GDPR suite provides a simple,
efficient system for all necessary steps and
processes towards GDPR compliance. This
allows us the single point of control that
we require to enable efficient and effective
management of our GDPR obligations.” He
added: “Previously we used several systems
in addition to spreadsheets, with duplicate
information across all of them. We wanted
to collate this into a single platform for
greater efficiency, which we’ve now been
able to achieve with SureCloud. We have
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