GDPR Consultancy
Ensure your organisations compliancy with GDPR regulations
Compliance with GDPR is a legal requirement for all organisations operating in the UK which collect personal information, regardless of the size, location or sector.
The implications of suffering a data breach under the new regulations can be severe for organisations. Not only will they face significant fines of up to €20 million, or 4% annual global turnover, whichever is greater. Experiencing a personal data breach can also result in substantial reputational damage resulting in loss of trust and business.
The implementation of some good practices will ensure your organisation meets the requirements as well as assuring customers, employees and all other data subjects that their information is being processed lawfully and stored securely.
Why is compliancy with GDPR regulations important?
Almost all of UK businesses collect personal information. This can range from personal contact information, including names, addresses and email addresses to customer medical information. All organisations which collect personal information must adhere to GDPR legislation.
Ensuring personal data is stored securely and only used where permission is granted to do so is a legal requirement. Failure to comply with may result in significant financial penalties and damage to your organisation's reputation.
GDPR Compliancy involves more than just keeping your organisation safe. Demonstrating your compliance with the regulations also helps you maintain a strong reputation within your industry and presents your ongoing commitment to protecting the privacy of your customers, employees and stakeholders.
How do you ensure your organisation meets GDPR compliancy regulations?
For many organisations, all that is required to ensure you are compliant with the regulations is a simple GDPR Gap Analysis to evaluate your current level of compliance against the existing requirements.
To achieve this, our consultants will review your existing policies, procedures and controls against the requirements of GDPR. Once this has been completed, our consultants will provide you with a report which indicates your current level of maturity alongside recommendations to remediate the gaps.
In addition to this, for organisations which have not yet been able to formally implement GDPR changes, our consultants can create and implement policy documentation and changes within your organisation on your behalf, this will enable you to ensure you are compliant with the GDPR legislation.
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What’s the easiest thing to implement in my office?
There are many controls every organisation should put in place to ensure good defence against cyber threats - from the basics like using anti-virus, email filters and firewalls, to more in-depth activities, like Penetration Testing and Phishing Assessments. One of the basic controls you can implement easily in both your professional and personal lives is good password hygiene. In some cases, your password is often the only thing keeping cyber criminals away from your sensitive information; length is the primary factor when creating a strong password—the longer it is, the more guesses will be needed by hackers to get it right.
Am I investing my Cyber Security budget correctly?
You could take a blanket approach and cover every possibility, but that’s an expensive strategy and your Finance Manager or CFO probably wouldn’t be happy to spend money unnecessarily. Every business faces different threats, so what the organisation in the next office needs to defend against isn’t necessarily what you need to invest in. It’s important to get an understanding of your threat profile and align that with the risks you’re willing to take (or not take). From there, you can decide what you should be investing in.
How do I educate my team to handle cyber threats?
The cyber threat is ever-changing and even with the best technical defences in place, the end-users (i.e. humans) are usually the weakest link. That is not to say that cyber security should only be non-technical, but it is important to have the right balance. Knowing where to start for cyber security generally can be difficult and working out what your team needs to know is a bit overwhelming. Like knowing where to invest your budget, how you train your team also starts with understanding your specific threats.
What do I do when something goes wrong?
Frustratingly, you’ve put in place all these useful security controls, but with the threats changing so often, keeping up can be hard. Therefore, it’s important to have the mindset that, it’s not about if you get breached, it’s about when you get breached and then how you handle it. Having a plan in place will ensure the consequences of a breach don’t undo of all your hard work in developing your organisation and building your reputation.