We’re delighted to issue an update on the BPM Index, with data from 23 Member States through the end of April 2019.
Compared to November 2018, the general trend is stable but there are some notable rises (and the UK dropped just a little). For example:
As our CEO, Robert Baugh notes: ‘This BPM Index update reflects, in figures from the DPAs themselves, what we’re seeing in the market as each month more organisations are addressing GDPR compliance. Security, and breach notification, is a fundamental part of GDPR.’ Robert continues: ‘In the near term, we’d expect to see a trend of breach notifications generally increasing as organisations get to grips with this key GDPR obligation and, perhaps by the end of the year, we’d look for some significant movement to narrow the BPM Index gap between similar countries.‘
See more in our June 2019 Update and the underlying BPM Index data – where’s your country?
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