Brendan Kavanagh’s HiUP has bagged a €3.5 million round of investment.

IRISH RECRUITMENT AND training firm HiUP has raised a multimillion-euro round of investment to promote and market its new data privacy training service.

He said the firm has raised €3.5 million to market its new course aimed at training up staff ahead of the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May.

The data protection rule changes afoot will make important amendments to existing laws about how personal data can be captured, stored and processed.