Mature Your Privacy Operations
You’ve mastered the basics, but there are additional risk, data, and measurement tasks to complete.
- Data privacy is increasingly becoming a requirement of every organization.
- Privacy and IT leaders continue to struggle to develop strong privacy programs despite looming regulatory pressure.
- IT leaders must translate legal obligations into actionable guidance for the organization.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Establish a comprehensive organization-wide privacy program using a MICAS (measurable, integrated, consistent, actionable, and scalable) approach.
- Operationalize your data protection initiatives and comply with applicable privacy regulations in the most cost-effective way.
Impact and Result
- Privacy and IT leaders need to see privacy as more than just compliance, but rather as a driver of business efficiency.
- Partner with the business by speaking their language and providing tools they can understand and implement.
- Create privacy policies and standards that are established with respect to how information is collected, processed, shared, and protected within the organization's data lifecycle.
- Establish a holistic and integrated privacy program by employing a phased approach.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
9.6/10
Overall Impact
$25,641
Average $ Saved
16
Average Days Saved
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
TransForm Shared Service Organization
Guided Implementation
9/10
$50,000
20
Centennial College
Guided Implementation
10/10
$23,500
20
Very timely insight and materials received
Canadian Wildlife Federation
Guided Implementation
9/10
$10,000
5
Safayat, has provided excellent supports with regards to our corporate privacy program development and supports!
Fidelity Investments Canada ULC
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
10
Alan is always extremely informative during our technical analyst calls to provide us with real company, practical insights that can help us expedi... Read More
Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute
Guided Implementation
9/10
$2,742
2
Environmental Defense Fund, Incorporated
Guided Implementation
10/10
$64,999
50
Helmerich & Payne, Inc.
Guided Implementation
10/10
$2,605
2
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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Speak With An Analyst
Get the help you need in this 6-phase advisory process. You'll receive 13 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
Guided Implementation 1: Assess privacy readiness
- Call 1: Assess the current privacy readiness level.
- Call 2: Identify gaps and mitigating controls.
Guided Implementation 2: Develop privacy documentation
- Call 1: Develop privacy notices and cookie policy.
- Call 2: Review and finalize documentation.
Guided Implementation 3: Manage privacy risks
- Call 1: Develop DPIA process.
- Call 2: Review and finalize DPIA process.
Guided Implementation 4: Manage data classification, retention, and transfer
- Call 1: : Review and develop data classification and handling standards.
- Call 2: Review and develop data retention and disposal standards.
- Call 3: Review and develop data processing agreement.
Guided Implementation 5: Respond to data subjects and incidents
- Call 1: Review and develop data subject access request (DSAR) handling process.
- Call 2: Review and develop data breach handling process.
Guided Implementation 6: Measure progress and performance
- Call 1: Build privacy program metrics.
- Call 2: Review and finalize KPIs.
Contributors
- Andrew David Bhagyam, Global Lead, Privacy Office, Zoho
- Preeti Dhawan, Privacy Officer, Bell
- Monique Greene, Privacy Consultant, Juno Legal
- Alfonso Yi, Head of Privacy & IT Risk, Ralph Lauren
- Rita Zurbrigg, Product Marketing Manager, OneTrust
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Comply With the California Consumer Privacy Act
Build an Effective Data Retention Program
Demonstrate Data Protection by Design for IT Systems
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Conduct an AI Privacy Risk Assessment
Prepare for PCI DSS v4.0
Comply With the California Privacy Rights Act
Comply With 2023 US Privacy Laws (Virginia, Connecticut, Utah, Colorado)
