Risk Management

Risk assessment is at the heart of effective data protection compliance, whether under GDPR, NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials or other frameworks. Fort Privacy provides expert support across all forms of data protection risk assessment, helping organisations to identify, evaluate and mitigate the risks associated with their personal data processing activities, information security and regulatory obligations.

Our risk management services include:

•        Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs): Required under the GDPR where processing is likely to result in a high risk to individuals. We conduct thorough DPIAs that go beyond box-ticking to identify the real risks in your processing activities and recommend practical mitigation measures.

•        Processor Risk Assessments: Required to support the onboarding journey where your Controller customer is likely to require a DPIA and you want to support them in that exercise.

•        Legitimate Interest Assessments (LIAs): Where organisations rely on legitimate interests as their legal basis for processing, we support the three-part test including the balancing of interests against the rights and freedoms of data subjects.

•        Transfer Impact Assessments (TIAs): Evaluating the risks associated with cross-border transfers of personal data and ensuring that appropriate safeguards and supplementary measures are in place.

•        Organisational risk registers: Developing and maintaining data protection risk registers that enable ongoing monitoring and reporting to management and boards.

Our approach ensures that risk assessments are meaningful, proportionate and directly linked to the practical realities of your operations — not just a compliance exercise.