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Specialists in privacy management

We're a practical data privacy and protection consultancy helping organisations build stakeholder trust by delivering data privacy globally and locally.

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Who we are

We believe privacy matters because people matter. We are a specialist global consultancy focused on the human side of data privacy and information security.

Employing our wide and deep experience of cyber, data protection, regulation and governance, we bring a strongly practical approach to helping organisations of all sizes protect themselves and their stakeholders. 

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Global coverage, locally delivered

Headquartered in London - with offices in Europe, the Caribbean and the US - we have practical on-the-ground experience in most of the world's privacy regimes with our team of international experts operating across dozens of jurisdictions.

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Jurisdictions covered

EMEA

  • Angola
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Botswana
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Hungary
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Namibia
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Sierra Leone
  • Slovakia
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • UK
  • Zambia

APAC

  • Australia
  • China
  • Hong Kong
  • India
  • Japan
  • Singapore
  • Taiwan
  • UAE

Americas

  • Antiqua & Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Aruba
  • Bahamas
  • Barbados
  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • Canada
  • Cayman Islands
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Curacao
  • Dominica
  • Ecuador
  • Grenada
  • Jamaica
  • Panama
  • Peri
  • St Kitts & Nevis
  • St Lucia
  • St Vincent & Grenadines
  • Trinidad & Tobago
  • USA

We go further than others

Securys has broad and varied collective experience which means we go wider and deeper than the rest.

We understand that businesses operate in a multi-dimensional regulatory environment and recognise the different priorities of the regulators. We are aware these can bring about tensions between compliance workstreams such as handling sensitive client data for AML, sharing health information across multiple specialists or monitoring staff movement and activities.

We go between the regulatory frameworks to help our clients not only to meet all their compliance requirements but also to drive efficiency and build trust internally and externally.

 

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Managing regulatory risk

Our client base covers over 50 countries, so we are conversant with multiple privacy legislations and data transfer protocols.

Data protection comes with significant regulatory risk, and it's a complex topic. There are now over 130 countries that have data protection laws and regulations.

Mitigating financial risk

It is important for organisations to know whether the budget they have set aside for controls and risk treatments is sufficient to mitigate risk to an acceptable level. It is our belief that many companies are not pricing risk adequately. As a consequence, they can underspend - or worse, misspend. Some companies spend a significant amount of money on data privacy, but do not achieve a great deal. 

Many organisations focus on the external risks from cybercrime such as data breach or ransomware. But data breaches are not always the result of criminals stealing data. Confidentiality breaches tend to be inadvertent misuse, or often, incorrect destinations - employees forwarding information to the wrong people or leaving documents in public.

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Hands-on leadership

When you choose Securys, you won’t get the ‘A team’ selling to you and the ‘D team’ delivering the projects. We live by our Privacy Made Practical® principle and that is why each of our management team members is also directly involved in project work.

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Ben Rapp

Group Chief Executive

Ben was formerly founder and CEO of Managed Networks, a leading UK managed services provider.

He holds a number of non-executive roles, including serving on the boards of TechUk and the BCS.

Ben is a CISSP-ISSMP, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM and an IAPP Fellow in International Privacy, BCS Fellow and a Chartered IT Professional.

A regular speaker at industry events, Ben also makes frequent broadcast media appearances. He writes on a broad range of data protection and privacy-related issues and challenges.

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Sara Newman

Director

Sara has had a number of Senior IT operations and management roles, including IT director for a UK top-25 accountancy firm. She leads on client engagements and on-site audits and shares responsibility for internal talent development and retention. Sara is a CISA and CIPP/E. She also holds PRINCE2 and ITIL certifications.

A regular speaker at industry events, Sara writes and makes broadcast appearances.

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John Lloyd

Director

John has worked in a wide variety of leadership roles in diverse sectors including media, healthcare and non-profit. He enjoys realising complex but rewarding projects for various sized organisations.

John writes regularly on privacy, data protection and AI challenges and speaks at industry events.

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Marc Marrero

Practice Lead

Marc is a data protection, governance specialist and Practice Lead.

He has helped build the Data Protection Office (DPO as a Service) practice for clients in the Caribbean and globally and has served as the Data Protection Officer in small and mid-sized financial services organisations in Europe.

Originally from California, Marc has a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics (LSE) in organisational governance.

An IAPP Fellow in International Privacy, he also holds the CIPP/E, CIPM and the CIPPA.

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Certification
Securys is a corporate member of the IAPP, and all our staff are required to obtain at least one IAPP certification. We’re also ISO 27001- and  ISO 27701 certified.

Why Securys?

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Scale

We work as a specialised data privacy and protection consultancy in over 50 countries. Our clients include some of the largest global firms in their sectors.

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Expertise

We bring global experience of data privacy and information security assessment and remediation from multiple sectors and perspectives and offer a vast array of certifications.

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Locations

We have practical on-the-ground experience in most of the world’s privacy regimes and know where to look for the conflicts between them.

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Practical approach

Our approach is strategic, risk-driven, forward looking, positive and practical – our recommendations are not theoretical or academic interpretations, they are implementable plans.

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Proven methodology

We bring continuously evolving audit and discovery tools with risk-scoring and flow through to dashboard and recommendations.

Your privacy engine room

Securys has been making privacy practical for organisations since 2014. We work across a wide variety of client types, including enterprise, SME, schools and charity organisations. The scope of their privacy needs is wide and varied but all our clients receive the same quality of service and care.

Our focus is on practical operational delivery of effective data privacy for all your stakeholders.

We’re not just a consultancy. We’re your privacy engine room. We can stand in your boardroom and do strategy with the best of them, and work with your compliance teams to solve knotty problems. We can audit your compliance and deliver drillable risk dashboards across the organisation. Above all we can get involved at ground level and help your frontline teams get the job done. That’s Privacy Made Practical®.

Why not let Securys be your privacy engine, so you can focus on privacy strategy and leadership?

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Charity and pro bono work

Each year our team nominates a charity that we support throughout the year with an initial cash donation and ongoing pro bono privacy work. We try to find charities where we can make a difference, both with our direct contribution and with our professional help. Disadvantaged people can often be at disproportionate risk from misuse of their data; our belief that privacy is good for people comes into sharp relief in our charitable work.

 

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