Virtual Data Protection Officer
Current industry is focused having products which is a quick fit to meet their trust, compliance and governance. Data protection officers (DPOs) assist you to monitor internal compliance, inform and advise on your data protection obligations, provide advice regarding Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs).
Who should appoint DPO?
Appointing a Data Protection Officer is a legal requirement. Apart from legal requirement, appointing a DPO will do a lot of good to the organisation. In today’s digital world where personal information is the building block of any organisation, having a DPO is no brainer.
Every law states multiple terminologies for an appointment of a DPO and to make it simple this is clear that every organisation which deals with and stores Personal Identifiable Information , Personal Health Information and / or Personal Card Information ; making it sensitive information in all should appoint a DPO.
Sectorial perspective for appointment of DPO
There are many regulations segregated across the industries. A specific sector may have a specific applicability of regulations like HIPPA for healthcare, GLBA for Financial regulations and education sector, NDMO for all sectors in Saudi and DPDP as well as GDPR irrespective of the sector. While various regulations cover different aspects of the particular sector, Data Protection remains unchanged directly or indirectly.
With every sector , few common and essential steps are –
- Define complete flow of internal & external operational process
- Identify data collection points
- Define data storage mechanism
- Virtual DPO to align the data collection & storage with Act & Regulations
- Categories organisation as per the definitions of the respective acts like Data Fiduciary , Data principles and much more
- Privacy Impact Assessment by Virtual DPO
- Leveraging privacy technologies
- Implementation of data protection technologies
An appointment of DPO has been and will be essential decision for management of every organisations. Major Data
Appointment of Virtual – Data Protection Officer
While DPO performs such crucial role, it comes with lot of regulations while hiring In-house DPO like reporting structure, certification etc. With Virtual DPO , organisations can take informed decisions by saving time, energy and money. Major efforts towards identifying & sourcing, hiring, managing and retaining talent, maintaining governance and investing in consulting separately. Virtual DPO will
- Analysing privacy laws
- Ensure compliance & Governance
- Conducting Privacy Impact Assessment
- Enable Privacy Audits
- Dealing with Security Technologies
- Evaluating Privacy Enhancing Technologies
- Advising on cross-border data flow
- Enablement and tracking of Data Privacy awareness and training
- Guiding on privacy monitoring
- Creating culture of Privacy by Design
- Keeping visibility & transparency on SOPs for Data flow
Roles & Responsibilities of Data Protection Officer
Compliances to meet with A-VDPO Service
- GDPR
- DPDPA
- PDPL
- KSA’s Data Protection Law
What Builds Confidence in Us?
- Team of Lawyers
- Certified DPOs
- Tier I Consulting Partners on board
- Security Matter Experts (SME) for Privacy Enhancing Technologies PETs
- Experienced trainers
- End to End support (Consulting – Audit – Governance – Recommendation – Solutions)
- Patent for Data Protection Lifecycle (DPLM)