IT professionals play a central role in protecting personal data across systems, networks, applications, databases, cloud platforms, logs, backups, user accounts, vendors, and digital workflows. The Data Protection & GDPR for IT Professionals course helps learners understand how General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) principles apply to technical environments and everyday IT decision-making. This practical online course explores data protection foundations, lawful processing, sensitive data risks, data subject rights, privacy by design, Records of Processing Activities, Data Protection Impact Assessments, breach response, audit trails, vendor chains, resilience, international transfers, and emerging global privacy challenges. It is designed to help IT teams, system administrators, security professionals, developers, cloud teams, infrastructure teams, and technical managers support stronger privacy-aware systems and reduce data protection risk.