Even if all of the compliance requirements on your checklist have been met, a data security breach can still occur. If you're a chief compliance officer, however, and you've done your job, it's not just up to IT and information security to deal with data protection.

In the chapter from The Shortcut Guide to Understanding Data Protection from Four Critical Perspectives, author Rebecca Herold explains why compliance professionals need to know and understand data protection issues in order to successfully do their job.