How Privacy Law is influencing system design and business process

There is a new reality for technologists. If your software fails to protect consumer privacy, you will feel it in your bottom line. For years, enterprise software and product developers have been following a pattern of producing minimum viable products (MVP) to support demands for rapid growth, only to remediate privacy security issues after a quarterly or annual audit, or worse, after a consumer complaint or a breach. This is the kind of action that will need to be reconsidered in the face of growing US privacy and security legislation, beginning in California.

Given this focus on legislating privacy and security (beginning with the EU and now carrying into the US) here are some ways we should be thinking ahead and applying the principles of security and privacy by design. Our presenters will discuss and weigh the benefits and costs of moving privacy and security features upstream in the development process, what technologies are emerging to facilitate this process, and considerations for weighing the risk and rewards.