Privacy audit for enterprise

An external validation of compliance

Would you benefit from knowing your privacy risks are well managed, your controls are effective and your data privacy policies and procedures align with best practice?

Are you optimising the positive value of privacy?

As global regulation continues to grow in complexity, we're here to help you ensure you stay compliant, minimise your risks and maximise the positive value of privacy in your enterprise.

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.

What does a data privacy audit reveal?

Review of the status quo

We work with your compliance team to review your privacy documentation and your information security practices; we also do sample interviews and primary source inspection to check that your training programmes are effective and that your policies and procedures are being followed.

Audit output

In addition to detailed reports and recommendations where we find any issues, you also receive summary dashboards at appropriate organisational levels to help your business unit and horizontal function leaders identify both areas of concern and centres of excellence.

In our view, audit is as much about finding praiseworthy behaviour that should be encouraged and replicate as it is about identifying error and risk.

Get expert insight into your privacy practices. Book your data privacy audit today.

Is your organisation aligned with best practice?

Our audits don't just check that your records are complete and that your compliant with the letter of the relevant laws. We also benchmark you against your peers and emerging industry standards.

Privacy is about trust, and building trust means going beyond the necessary minimum. We'll help you understand how other comparable organisations are using privacy as a positive tool for revenue growth, customer retention and talent management.

Benchmark your data protection against industry best practice - request a privacy audit today!

How robust is your supply chain?

Organisations rely on their supply chain to deliver products and services effectively and efficiently. But such networks come with risk and especially data protection risk. Personal data processing is invariably distributed across the supply chain.

Supply chains present an attractive target for criminals given their ability to attack multiple targets simultaneously. Several recent data breaches have been as a result of the exploitation of supply chain weaknesses.

It is incumbent on organisations – and particularly regulated entities which bear legal and regulatory responsibilities, to implement the required controls to manage these risks.

This is where we can help. Working in conjunction with internal stakeholders in procurement, legal, IT and across the business, our key supplier review identifies and reports on areas of risk to make positive, practical recommendations for remediation.

Identify and reduce your supply chain data protection risks—request a supplier risk review today. Explore our third-party risk management services.

Would a data privacy gap analysis help you align with best practice?

If your privacy programme is under way but not yet mature, or if you are expanding into new territories or processing activities, we can help you with a gap analysis comparing your existing documentation, controls and processes to both global best practice and specific geographic and sector regulations.

Our maturity map provides a formalised assessment of your organisational controls maturity compared to one or more selected privacy and security standards such as ISO27001 and ISO 27701, SOC2, NIST and APEC.

Expanding or evolving your privacy programme? Let us assess your gaps against global standards.

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The cost of not having a privacy programme

Are you looking to justify your firm's investment in data privacy and wondering how best to make your case internally? Read Practice Lead Marc Marrero's alternate perspective.

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Chain of fools

Recent prominent outages and data breaches serve to underline supply chain vulnerabilities. Read our latest article on ways to manage third party risks.

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Practical considerations for the crafting of an effective data retention policy

Effective data retention makes sure that only relevant data is retained. This drives operational efficiencies and reduces risk.

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Data Privacy Audit Process

Laying the foundations

A data privacy audit is the foundation on which a company organises its data protection compliance.

Privacy Operating Model

Practical privacy and strong governance

Defining and instituting a privacy operating model to support your success.

Benchmarking

A measure of privacy maturity

Our benchmarking service provides insight into where you sit within your sector and the wider world.

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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?

Training

Get in-depth privacy and security training

We help enterprises design and deliver privacy training covering everything from first principles through to specific procedures.

Act now and speak to us about your audit needs.

To start a conversation about your audit requirements, simply fill out our contact form to arrange an informal chat with our privacy professionals. We promise to bring biscuits to our first face-to-face meeting.