Government regulations across the globe, consumer choices and cyber crime has led organisations to prioritise the protection of customer and the organisations’ data, hence their privacy and security are no longer an optional component of IT stack.

The volume of personal data being created, transmitted, and stored, combined with the economic, social, and political concerns over data handling, means that simply adhering to existing and new privacy rules is now the basic requirement of every organisation.

 

More critical to long-term success is a well-executed data privacy plan that can be used as an advantage to win and retain customers; a plan that will turn privacy into a business opportunity for your organisation.

 

Develop and maintain a strong data privacy posture

 

DGS Technologies data protection and privacy experts will enable organisations to better understand their exposure to current data protection and privacy laws, and create a privacy programme that:

 

• Firstly, carries out data privacy impact analysis on designated systems and processes
• Anticipates risks and changes in common themes
• Increases privacy resiliency
• Creates oversight opportunities for suppliers and staff
• Automates data functions
• Advocates and guides privacy by design on IT solutions

 

Data protection and privacy-related compliance takes many forms across different markets, countries and regions, with different laws– GDPR, HIPAA Privacy Rule, CCPA, VCDPA, etc. — with new obligations regularly emerging.

 

While complying with one or more of these laws is crucial as a start, a data protection and privacy programme that serves as a competitive differentiator must go beyond compliance.

The reasons for these are: real strength comes from a proactive approach to aligning corporate data governance to applicable regulations rather than constantly revising your process to keep up; if you only design your privacy programme to meet a single regulation or certification, you will spend money and time every year to re-design the programme to meet new rules.

 

Most compliance programmes offer only point-in-time KPIs and our initial assessment when engaged shows organisations how strong their data privacy programme is at the time.

 

Why choose DGS as your data protection and privacy partner

 

Proactive approach to data privacy compliance:

New privacy regulations are coming at an ever-faster pace. DGS with our retainership package and Data Protection and privacy dashboard will help your organisation to be proactive rather than reactive.

 

Fills the skills gap within privacy teams: 

Skilled privacy professionals are in high demand. DGS’s privacy specialists work to build and drive your privacy programme to reduce staffing-related gaps and risks and save you cost. We can deploy the specialist at short notice and for brief activities or projects.

 

Build privacy-forward products and services from the ground up: 

Develop new products and services with the goal of privacy protections from the start to avoid costly and ineffective retrofits against mature products.

 

Organise business strategy around privacy: 

To meet the expectations of increasingly sophisticated and privacy-savvy customers, companies must elevate the importance of privacy planning and development across all business operations. Basic compliance is no longer sufficient to generate customer trust.

 

Implement executive and board-level reporting: 

To show current maturity and allow performance measurement over time, the data protection and privacy Tool and Dashboard provides easy-to-understand programme quality rankings across selected domains.

 

This level of detail helps privacy teams understand maturity, plan for future improvements, and demonstrate ROI.