Legal cannabis is a big business that handles big data. From personalized data to protected health information to cannabis information that requires regulatory compliance with cybersecurity and data privacy laws–the entire cannabis industry faces data privacy and cybersecurity challenges not faced by other sectors.

But wait, other sectors have to navigate data concerns, too right? Cannabis is different. Aside from adhering to all the typical privacy concerns, cannabis data comes with a layer of complexity for cannabis operators due to industry-specific data collection and mandatory retention requirements surrounding it. Read the full article here.