In a word, no. Two years before GDPR came into effect in May of 2018, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation was announced to the public in early 2016. In the span of four years, then—from announcement through current day—corporations report they are approximately half-confident they can identify and mitigate risk.

Half is not that great. It’s especially not great considering two years of preparation were built-in, two years of enactment, and about 12 months past the “year of enforcement” with big fines levied on British Airways, Marriott, Google and countless mid-sized companies. Wrap into this concoction that for the past three years, Chief Legal Officers reported to the ACC that compliance with changing regulations, data privacy and cybersecurity are their top concerns, we definitely need to investigate why legal departments aren’t doing better.