The Schrems II ruling invalidated Privacy Shield and exposed GDPR gaps in protecting EU personal data once transferred outside the EU. The paper explains that companies now face legal risk, stricter EDPB expectations and potential shutdown of transatlantic data flows. Pages 6 and 7 outline the six step assessment and the four Essential Guarantees required for lawful transfers. Organizations must discover and classify data, encrypt it, and control access independently of cloud providers. A cloud agnostic access security layer, such as Thales OneWelcome, helps maintain sovereignty, reduce threat inheritance and avoid vendor lock in while ensuring compliant, privacy preserving data transfers.

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