Data protection
The best organisations take great care to protect data, seeing it as an essential part of treating employees and customers fairly. To do this, they need to have a robust data protection system in place to ensure compliance with legislative obligations.
Data protection
framework
GoodCorporation’s Data Protection Framework can be used to verify existing systems and processes to provide board level assurances, or as a tool to identify any gaps and highlight areas that need to be strengthened. It covers the following areas
Management and governance
Risk assessment
Information security
The legal environment
Operational data practices
Managing employee and stakeholder awareness
Managing data access requests
dealing with data breaches, and
Monitoring and reviewing processes
The framework can be applied to the protection of both personal and commercial data and can be used to design, embed or evaluate an organisation’s data protection systems and culture.
Key steps to good data management
Demonstrating management commitment
Conducting thorough risk assessments
Maintaining a strong information security environment
Monitoring the legal environment
Managing employees who handle data
Controlling third party access to data
Handling requests from data subjects properly
Dealing with breaches swiftly and effectively
Conducting audits and reviews
If an organisation can’t demonstrate that good data protection is a cornerstone of their business policy and practices, they’re leaving themselves open to enforcement action that can damage their public reputation and possibly their bank balance. That makes data protection a boardroom issue.
Elizabeth Denham
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