Data Discovery Services

Map, manage, and secure your data

Protiviti UK helps you remain compliant with data privacy regulations by mapping sensitive and personal data and outlining the priority risks unique to your organisation.

Which processing operations present higher data protection risk?
How does your organisation currently comply with regulatory obligations?
Is my organisation in compliance with the regulation?
If we are in compliance, how can we prove it?
If we are not in compliance, how and when do we plan to achieve compliance?
Do we have a good understanding of where our data is and how it flows through our internal systems?

Protiviti UK’s data discovery services helps your organisation to identify risks and secure information by giving you the insight to understand how personal data flows throughout your organisation. Additionally, data discovery provides the framework to support breach notifications and respond to data requests (e.g., delete, correct, access).

Understand how personal data flows throughout your organisation

Protiviti helps build the foundations of a strong but flexible privacy programme

Our comprehensive approach to Data Privacy in the UK

Data privacy regulations are in flux globally. Even as companies put the finishing touches on extensive preparations to comply with applicable privacy laws, such as the European Union’s GDPR and California’s Consumer Privacy Act, new regulations continue to be introduced in other countries. As legislators pass new laws, they continuously amend those already in effect. Data privacy regulations are not static.

The problem and proposed solutions are complex and evolving. One thing is almost certain—anyone aiming to comply with a specific regulation with a target date in mind will be disappointed as those near-term obligations are supplanted by new and different rules over the mid and long-term.

In response to this changing landscape, Protiviti applies a holistic framework that addresses the fundamental aspects of data privacy without being locked into any one specific compliance format. We focus on the most pressing data privacy issues companies face, including:

Developing strategies to address global data privacy regulations
Compliance with regulatory obligations
Addressing resource and skill shortages
Operationalising privacy needs
Implementing privacy tools and remediation support

By working ahead of the law in a comprehensive fashion, Protiviti helps build the foundations of a strong but flexible privacy programme that includes understanding principles, educating stakeholders, and developing an applicable governance structure for managing changes. This base enables companies and their stakeholders to look to the uncertain future of privacy regulations with greater confidence.

Protiviti helps build the foundations of a strong but flexible privacy programme

Key data privacy partners

We partner closely with cybersecurity and privacy market leaders, ensuring our clients receive the best solutions to meet their needs.

Notably, Protiviti has performed more global implementations than other OneTrust partners and has well over 175 OneTrust-certified consultants, including more than 10% of the global population of OneTrust Fellows of Privacy Technology spread across Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific regions.

Some of our top partners include:

Leadership

Roland Carandang

Roland Carandang is a Managing Director in our London office and a global leader in cyber security / resilience and technology innovation. Through his 20+ year career, he’s partnered with his clients from assessment to strategy and roadmap definition through to end-to ...

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