Are you at risk from your suppliers mishandling data breaches?
I’ve seen a few suppliers make classic errors dealing with breaches in their client’s data. Here are the top three errors suppliers make and 5 suggestions to avoid them!
Embedding Data Protection Compliance into the Supplier Procurement Process
Category: Data Transfer Management / Accountability
Customer: Government Agency
We worked with a Government agency to ensure that data protection compliance considerations were considered in their procurement process. We had to consider that the agency would procure products and services from a diverse supplier base. This required a robust process that could be flexible enough to apply to complex projects involving outsourcing high risk processing activities and to small suppliers who were providing services that carried negligible processing risks. We built a due diligence process that ensures the appropriate level of due diligence is applied and does not prevent smaller suppliers from engaging on the agency contracts while ensuring all compliance considerations are taken into account.
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Ode to DPO’s managing GDPR risk
The General Data Protection Regulation is “risk” based legislation. This means that the protective measures an organisation implements should correspond to the level of risk associated with their data processing activities. It’s worth noting that the risk that should be considered here, is the risk to the data subject as opposed to risk to the business of non-compliance.
Get your head above the crowd and KPI your Data Protection Programme
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