What is a Data Protection Audit?
- Data Protection Audits are a business-critical tool designed to identify how your organisation stands in relation to applicable data protection and privacy laws by highlighting recognisable gaps and associated risks in relation to your compliance alignment and maturity.
- Our Data Protection Audit is an independent assessment of the suitability, design and operational effectiveness of an organisation’s privacy and data protection controls. It can either be for a company’s internal use (private reporting) or for reliance by external stakeholders such as clients and business customers (public reporting).
Achieve GDPR Compliance With Our Specialist GDPR Audits
Navigating and complying with the GDPR can be a daunting prospect for businesses. Many organisations store house and process personal sensitive data across a variety of departments and a variety of systems, making it all-too-easy for undetected vulnerabilities to arise.
In addition, a data breach could prove terminal for an organisation, resulting in large regulatory fines and irreparable reputational damage. As a result, it’s essential to execute a detailed GDPR audit to identify any areas for improvement within your data protection processes – and resolve them before they result in a breach.
Bruce & Butler’s specialist GDPR audits are custom-tailored to all aspects of the GDPR, identifying any shortcomings in your GDPR compliance and providing actionable advice for remediation to ensure you’re protected.
How Much Does a Data Protection Audit Cost?
Why Have a Data Protection Audit?
- Organisations are facing a heightened level of scrutiny from business customers, data protection regulators, privacy activists, citizens and the judicial community, which is driving the demand for assurance.
- Obtaining assurance through a comprehensive data protection audit helps you actively demonstrate compliance, requiring evidence that compliance is taking place at the operational level, and demonstrating that purposeful and sustainable data protection outcomes are being delivered throughout the organisation.
Our Data Protection Audit Process
Law Applicability
Identifying which data protection laws apply to your business (and to what extent). This will also establish if you are a controller or a processor of personal data (or both).
Policy Evaluation
Ascertaining if there are any current data protection policies in place (and if any changes to existing policies are required).
Process Evaluation
Analysing and assessing all aspects of data handling in your business, including the type of data handled as well as a review of current storage, safeguarding and erasure processes.
Organisational Knowledge
Ascertaining if there are any current data protection policies in place (and if any changes to existing policies are required).
The Value of a Data Protection Audit
Undertaking a data protection audit demonstrates to third parties relying on the report (such as regulators, suppliers and customers) that fulfilling data protection requirements is important to your organisation.
A Data Protection Audit identifies any gaps in the operational application of your data protection and privacy controls and where to apply remediation efforts paving the way for great continual improvement.
Prioritising Data Protection compliance demonstrates that your contractual obligations to business customers are being satisfied and that any commitments made to regulators are being met.
Data Protection Auditing demonstrates a good system of risk management and internal controls to address important societal issues relating to privacy. This can aid effective corporate governance and promote the long-term sustainable success of organisations.
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Why Choose Bruce & Butler
Bruce & Butler are committed to ensuring organisations of all shapes and sizes remain fully compliant with major data protection laws to safeguard their reputation, key relationships and bottom line.
By combining state-of-the-art tools with decades of in-house data protection experience, we’re proud to serve as the experts in our field. Having worked with a wide variety of organisations over the last few years, we’ve encountered – and identified remediation efforts for – virtually every type of data protection issue an organisation can come up against.
Get in touch with us today to learn more about how our Data Protection & specialist GDPR auditing service can safeguard your organisation.
