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Fast Track Your GDPR Compliance Efforts

Quickly address regulatory requirements, even after the deadline.

  • Organizations often tackle compliance efforts in an ad hoc manner, resulting in an ineffective use of resources.
  • The alignment of business objectives, information security, and data privacy is new for many organizations, and it can seem overwhelming.
  • GDPR is an EU regulation that has global implications; it likely applies to your organization more than you think.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

  • Financial impact isn’t simply fines. A data controller fined for GDPR non-compliance may sue its data processor for damage.
  • Even day-to-day activities may be considered processing. Screen-sharing from a remote location is considered processing if the data shown onscreen contains personal data!
  • This is not simply an IT problem. Organizations that address GDPR in a siloed approach will not be as successful as organizations that take a cross-functional approach.

Impact and Result

  • Follow a robust methodology that applies to any organization and aligns operational and situational GDPR scope. Info-Tech's framework allows organizations to tackle GDPR compliance in a right-sized, methodical approach.
  • Adhere to a core, complex GDPR requirement through the use of our documentation templates.
  • Understand how the risk of non-compliance is aligned to both your organization’s functions and data scope.
  • This blueprint will guide you through projects and steps that will result in quick wins for near-term compliance.

Fast Track Your GDPR Compliance Efforts Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should fast track your GDPR compliance efforts, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

1. Understand your compliance requirements

Understand the breadth of the regulation’s requirements and document roles and responsibilities.

2. Define your GDPR scope

Define your GDPR scope and prioritize initiatives based on risk.

4. Align your data breach requirements and security program

Document your DPO decision and align security strategy to data privacy.

5. Prioritize your GDPR initiatives

Prioritize any initiatives driven out of Phases 1-4 and begin developing policies that help in the documentation effort.

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About Info-Tech

Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.

We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Get the help you need in this 5-phase advisory process. You'll receive 8 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Guided Implementation 1: Understand your compliance requirements
  • Call 1: Understand the regulation and general scope for your organization.

Guided Implementation 2: Define your GDPR scope
  • Call 1: Prioritize initiatives on the risk map.
  • Call 2: Determine your operational or situational scope for each business unit.

Guided Implementation 3: Satisfy documentation requirements
  • Call 1: Review the record of processing.
  • Call 2: Review legitimate interest assessments for key processing activities.

Guided Implementation 4: Align your data breach requirements & security program
  • Call 1: Review current incident response program.
  • Call 2: Determine your need for a DPO and the alignment to your security strategy.

Guided Implementation 5: Prioritize your GDPR initiatives
  • Call 1: Review your GDPR project.

Authors

Rita Zurbrigg

Aaron Shum

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