To prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation, companies need to find a way to establish security controls over the entire infrastructure from a single point. Without investing in new hardware or re-building existing systems, data virtualization allows companies to quickly and easily comply with data protection regulations. There are three ways in which this can be done. First rule is not to replicate the data which will lead to governance and security nightmares. Second is that data virtualization makes it possible to apply consistent levels of security across the heterogeneous data sources which contains the data. Finally, data virtualization removes the need for replication and latency of updates of customer information, thus providing users accurate information as applied in the system of record. Thus, data virtualization can help in data protection. Read more at: http://www.datavirtualizationblog.com/3-steps-data-protection-compliance-gdpr/