In today’s world data privacy and protection is one of the biggest concern for the organizations across the globe. Most of the apps, websites we use today captures some sort of personal data like email address, phone number, date of birth and even our credit card information in some form or the other. Recent data breaches are making app and website users less confident on the companies who manages their data. This is hampering the brand image and trust for the companies. One of such recent Cambridge Analytica Facebook data scandal triggered movement like #DeleteFacebook. This caused billions of dollars for brand like Facebook and trust factors went negative for them.

To help protect Citizen’s personal and sensitive data – data protection and regulatory laws are in place for many countries. These laws and regulations are not something very new, they are there for quite a while. Recent data breaches and scandals triggered various governments to take strict actions to protect their citizen’s data, one of such example is European Unions General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Many tech titans and entrepreneurs across the globe stepping up and demanding stronger and well-crafted data protection regulation. It is needless to say in future data privacy and it’s protection is going to be a huge thing and organizations will be imposed with more and more regulatory, audit and reporting requirements around the data that they manage.

Since database is the heart of any organizations IT infrastructure where most of the data gets stored and processed. It is needless to say the most of the regulatory controls applies to database first. SQL Information Protection (SQLIP) is one of such technique from the house of Microsoft – using which you can stay compliant with regulatory and audit compliance by discovering, classifying, labeling & reporting enssitive data in your databases.