I’ve just published my latest whitepaper, BizTalk Server and GDPR.
After performing several GDPR assessments and discussing this topic at INTEGRATE 2018 London, I felt this was the next logical step.
GDPR has concerned many BizTalk Server customers, and it continues to do so today. More broadly, it affects all organizations, regardless of whether they use BizTalk Server.
📝 One-Minute Brief
An overview of a GDPR whitepaper explaining how BizTalk Server fits into data protection and compliance requirements, highlighting integration‑level responsibilities, governance, and security considerations.
In a general way, BizTalk Server is GDPR compliant – in fact Microsoft Product group announced in INTEGRATE2018 London Event that one of the features of BizTalk Server 2016 Feature Pack 3 (FP3) was FIPS and GDPR privacy standards-compliant, but that was just a marketing strategy since, in its most simplistic form, BizTalk Server is a messaging broker, which doesn’t capture or store any type of data on its system other than for the time needed to complete business processes and to connect and route messages to their target systems. However, because you can process messages and/or communicate with systems that contain sensitive data (personal data), you must have some good practices in BizTalk Server Applications to comply with GDPR. So, in other words, BizTalk Server is GDPR compliant, but your BizTalk Applications may not be.
What to expect from the BizTalk Server and GDPR whitepaper
BizTalk Server is part of a complex enterprise IT environment, and we also need to ensure that these BizTalk Server environments are GDPR-compliant. This white paper aims to provide key points on how to archive and deploy secure integrations in BizTalk Server, and how to help organizations with this complex middle piece become GDPR compliant.
This whitepaper will cover the impact of the new regulations and what needs to be done, with a focus exclusively on BizTalk Server environments.
Where can I download it?
The whitepaper is completely free, and you can download it here:
I would also like to take this opportunity to say thanks to Lex Hegt for helping me review this whitepaper, especially for his incredible work correcting my horrible English and, in this way, making the document and my thoughts readable.
I hope you enjoy reading this paper, and any comments or suggestions are welcome.
You can also find, download, and enjoy several other free whitepapers of my own here:
- Step by step configuration to publish BizTalk operational data on Power BI
- BizTalk Server DB: Disaster Recovery, troubleshooting & best practices
- Installing and Configuring BizTalk360 in a Standalone Machine running BizTalk 2016
- Installing and Configuring Microsoft BizTalk 2013 R2 for RosettaNet
- Installing BizTalk Server 2016 in a Standalone Machine
- Installing BizTalk Server 2013 in a Standalone Machine
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