EU-funded group says GDPR will enable information sharing, recommends data retention policy

European officials are downplaying concerns that tough new data protection rules set to take effect this month will impede cybersecurity information sharing, while advising organizations to draw up data retention policies.

“The intent of the [General Data Protection Regulation] was definitely not stifling sharing, we’re of the firm belief that GDPR will be an enabler for information sharing,” Andras Iklody, a software developer for the Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg, or CIRCL, and lead developer of the related open source...