DataDecisionMakers Author
Ameesh Divatia is cofounder and CEO of Baffle, Inc., a cloud data protection company. He has a proven track record of turning technologies that are difficult to build into successful businesses, selling three companies for more than $425 million combined in the service provider and enterprise data center infrastructure markets.
As someone who spends their workdays — and more than a few work nights — talking to executives about their most pressing data security concerns, I found that regulatory compliance became the most popular topic of conversation in 2022. But while compliance is a hot topic, it’s certainly not new. If I were to pinpoint when compliance discussions occurred with growing frequency, I would say it was after the adoption of the EU’s GDPR in 2018 — the most aggressive and widest-reaching data privacy regulation to date.