The bill requires businesses to adopt reasonable policies, practices, and measures for handling personal information to avoid data leaks and breach of privacy.

As a part of their compliance strategy, enterprises must first create standardized data protection and governance frameworks. Additionally, they must adopt appropriate tools to execute the policies laid out by these frameworks. And a contextually-intelligent, next-generation data loss prevention firewall is the perfect tool to ensure that only the right people have access to personal information, and only for the right purposes.

To ensure that the data pertaining to their customers is only used for the right purposes, businesses must have complete visibility into the enterprise network and the way it handles data. They must be able to monitor every bit of information that is used by the organization and record who accessed what piece of information and when. They must be able to show these records and demonstrate the data protection measures taken by them to the authorities if necessary. A contextually-intelligent data loss prevention firewall, which allows such functionality, can prove to be a valuable tool for achieving compliance with the Personal Data Protection bill. Such a tool can not only provide highly secure protection for critical information but also offer deep visibility into an organization’s network. This will make compliance with regulations easier and make privacy an inherent part of the organization’s personal data-centric processes.