Data Protection Compliance Programme
COMPLIANCE ASSURANCE PROGRAM
In order to ensure compliance with regulations and legislation, an organisation should commence by conducting a review or audit of compliance.
Data Compliance Limited have extensive experience of conducting compliance reviews of internal procedures and security practises. An audit provides assurance for the Board and executive management that the organisation is in compliance with EU Law and industry regulations. Our audit reports deliver an executive summary for the Board and Senior Management while including a complete assessment of gaps and recommendations for corrective and/or preventive action.
It is best practice to review security controls at least annually, however this may need to be performed more frequently should regulations or legislation require it.
WHY DATA PROTECTION COMPLIANCE IS VITAL
Information and the supporting processes, systems, and networks are important valuable assets.
Defining, achieving, maintaining, and improving information security is essential to maintain:
- Legal and regulatory compliance
- Customer confidence and trust
- Competitive edge
- Reputational risk and damages
- Sanctions and penalties
To work effectively, information security and IT Governance must be regarded as an attitude rather than a product. Buying firewalls, anti virus software and intrusion detection, not to mention installing security patches on all your servers and workstations will only get you so far. Unless you can also persuade people of the concept, you are still at significant risk from a security breach of some kind. Cyber criminals know the weakest link in your organisation’s armour is almost certainly a person rather than technology.
In short, any one of your data processors (employees, contractors and third parties) from administration, to credit control, to accounts and senior management could be the target of a virus, cyber crime or social engineering attack.
By helping staff understand the risks to information systems and by outlining their responsibilities of ‘due care’ in policies and procedures, you are not only mitigating risk of attack but are complying with obligations such as the Data Protection Act also.
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