DATA RISKS

Understand, mitigate and control data risks to your business

Background

Protecting business data to be robust, reliable and secure

Your business is legally obliged to ensure data is:
– used fairly, lawfully and transparently
– used for specified, explicit purposes
– used in a way that is adequate, relevant and limited to only what is necessary
– accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date
– kept for no longer than is necessary
– handled in a way that ensures appropriate security, including protection against unlawful or unauthorised processing, access, loss, destruction or damage

Impacts of not protecting data can include:

Reputational Damage:
Your clients trust you with their data, losing that trust can mean not only losing existing clients but future ones too.

Lost Competitive Advantage:
Your business data such as your customer lists have been hard earned – don’t lose the data to competitors.

Financial Claims:
If you neglect the information you hold you are liable to claims for negligence from your clients, suppliers and employees. These can be wide ranging, costly and divert resources from your core business.

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TYPICAL STEPS WE FOLLOW

Data Risk Assessment

Your Business

Guided Q&A at times & speed to suit you. Provides us with a deep understanding of your current business data, methods of obtaining, securing & retaining data. Jargon free, easily digested and effortless on-boarding.

Gap Analysis

We compare your data practices to those of our industry best practices. This generate a list of potential Data Protection Risks that are graded based on how far from optimal your business data practices are today.

Data Risk Review

Our experienced cross technology team reviews your identified data risks and raises additional clarifications. This adjusts the risks identified, the impact ratings and current mitigation’s to be unique to your business.

Risk Mitigation Planning

We provide a simple, actionable and practical list of identified Data Risks specific to your business. Listed in suggested priority sequence of mitigation. Each action is supported by tools & guides for easy implementation.

Just in Time Services

Where you don’t have existing expertise or suppliers we can support in the delivery of identified actions. For example: compliant GDPR & affordable Cyber Essentials, Data Protection Impact Assessments and more.

UK Based Human Contact

We pride ourselves on our work and stand behind every service. Our Ask-a-CTO service allows you to ask questions relating to your Data Risk Assessment or any other IT question – answered by our UK technology specialists.

UK ICO Approach to Data Risk

UK Information Commissioners Office

We adhere to the UK ICO approach to Data Risk management. This provides a comprehensive, best practice approach to data compliance and security.

ICO Components of Data Protection Impact Assessments
Identifying, recording and managing risks
Data protection by design and by default
DPIA policy and procedures
DPIA content
DPIA risk mitigation and review
Data Protection accountability
Reviews From Our Past Work

..deep technical skills combined with his huge insight in business possibilities, has led to many valuable outcomes, both in business process optimization and architecture modernization..

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Worried about losing Data in your organisation?

We help company leaders make sense of data protection risks to their business with no Jargon