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Privacy: risk and reward

Helping business to seize the privacy opportunity

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Risk and reward - a positive perspective on data privacy

A successful privacy operating model underwrites practical privacy with good governance and places trust and transparency at the heart of data protection.

Doing privacy well is about making privacy practical, about creating a reward framework not a risk framework - and one in which a positive approach to privacy reaps rewards for all stakeholders.

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"Our evidence is that a positive, constructive approach to privacy reaps rewards both internally and externally."

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Privacy Operating Model

One key challenge in establishing a properly functioning privacy programme is defining and instituting a privacy operating model which will support an organisation.

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AI privacy and ethics 

AI regulation: current and forthcoming rules, compliance guidance and risk mitigation

Many businesses are grappling with AI and its implications. 

Our AI white paper sets out some general guidelines for ethical and compliant use of AI and works through a number of practical examples to help elucidate the issue and present in each case a compliant approach and appropriate safeguards.

With a focus on data protection, we consider both the position being adopted by the European Union – which can be considered to be “leading the charge” in regulating the use of AI – but also the growing impetus towards AI regulation in the US, China and elsewhere.

 

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Included in our white paper 

  • The current regulatory landscape with a focus on 
    • GDPR
    • USA
    • China
  • Future regulatory landscape looking at proposed legislation in the EU, UK and the US
  • Practical considerations and critical risks including cyber and transparency risks
  • Thoughts and recommendations on oversight and governance.

Privacy as a competitive advantage

We launched the Privacy Made Positive® initiative in 2020 with the intention of putting hard figures against our thesis that good privacy delivers measurable commercial value.

Our Privacy Made Positive® initiative is research programme and a set of tools to help organisations profit from improving privacy.

  • Economic Research - an analysis of the existing research to indicate the economic value of good privacy.
  • Europe: Consumers act on privacy. Customised consumer research conducted by Kantar with 4,000 consumers across Europe.
  • Data privacy, consumer choice and behaviours across the US. Customised consumer research conducted by Kantar with 3,000 consumers across the US.

The findings are of crucial importance to businesses that understand the importance of developing a 360° view of privacy.

Click below to find out more about our research and our toolkit of services.

Privacy Made Positive®

How we can help

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Regulatory compliance

Privacy regulation is evolving at pace across the world. We bring global experience of data privacy and information security assessment and remediation from multiple sectors and a strategic, risk-based, positive and practical approach.

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Audit and assurance

Proper compliance requires continuous vigilance, both to ensure that the defined policies and procedures are being followed and to check that supply chain partners are meeting their obligations. Let us take the strain.

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Assistance and support

Whether you are responding to a regulator, a supply-chain partner, a customer or a data subject we will be there to support you, ensuring that each party receives the right information at the right time in the right format. 

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Data flow mapping

We map all your data flows, identifying where data is transferred, which partners are involved, what business process is being served and what the risks really are.

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Safeguards

We check that you have the right safeguards in place and that they are being applied correctly. This includes comprehensive audit of your supply chain for security and compliance.

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Simplification

Sometimes doing less is the best answer. We will help you find ways to reduce what is being transferred, or to transform identifiable data into aggregated or anonymised information without reducing business effectiveness.

Related services

Privacy as a service

Outsourced delivery of privacy

Our Privacy-as-a-service (PaaS) provides complete privacy coverage and is flexibly resourced and priced to suit your budget

Benchmarking

How effective is your privacy programme?

Our benchmarking service provides a measurable record of an organisation's privacy maturity

Privacy audit

An external validation of compliance

As with other areas of business where there are multiple stakeholders and multiple risks, both external and internal, it’s important to validate that your internal controls are working properly and that you’re following best practice.

Consulting

Support your team with external insight

Our consultants combine wide and deep privacy knowledge with real-world commercial experience.

Privacy assurance for enterprises

Your compliance engine room

Delivering effective privacy at global scale needs first-class support. Why not use our people and our tools to empower your compliance team?

Why Securys?

Scale

Scale

We work globally as a specialised privacy consultancy in more than 50 markets. Our clients include some of the largest global firms in their sectors.

ESG

ESG

Data privacy is an increasingly important aspect of governance as both populations and governments focus their attention on a corporation’s responsibilities in a social context.

Locations

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.

Expertise

Expertise

We bring global experience of data privacy and information security assessment and remediation from multiple sectors and perspectives, as well as a formidable array of certifications across a culturally diverse team.

Practical

Practical

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

Continuously evolving tools including privacy benchmarking, comprehensive audit and discovery tools with risk-scoring and flow through to dashboard and recommendations.

About Securys

A specialist data privacy consultancy with a difference

A specialist data privacy consultancy with a difference

We are not a law firm, but we employ lawyers. We’re not a cybersecurity business but our staff qualifications include CISSP and CISA. We’re not selling a one-size-fits-all tech product, but we’ve built proprietary tools and techniques that work with the class-leading GRC products to simplify and streamline the hardest tasks in assuring privacy.

Certified and accredited

Certified and accredited

We’re corporate members of the IAPP, and all our consultants are required to obtain one or more IAPP certifications. We’re ISO 27701 and  27001-certified and have a comprehensive set of policies and frameworks to help our clients achieve and maintain certification. Above all, our relentless focus is on practical operational delivery of effective data privacy for all your stakeholders.

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