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Documenting the Technical and Organisational measures
Tricia Higgins
Category: Security Management / Accountability
Customer: Government Agency
We worked with a large public sector organisation to document their Technical and Organisational measures. Collating a set of TOMS involves an in-depth examination of existing processes to ensure that they include measures to protect personal data. We capture those measures into a single document, and we identify any gaps that need to be addressed. This process results in the production of a fully evaluated set of TOMS. Once the organisations TOMS were in place, we then helped them to embed them into their supplier contracts, ensuring that suppliers were held to the same standard of accountability as the organisation itself.
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