How will GDPR expose your company?

You’ll no doubt be familiar with the severe consequences of being non-compliant but where does the threat of exposure come from?

Individuals exercising their rights to access their own data.
Data security breach (exposure of personal information).
Audit from ICO (UK) or other EU regulatory authority.

Apathy is not the best strategy. But this doesn’t necessarily mean you have to embark on a huge, costly project. Whatever the size of your business, let Demarq help you simplify the process and find an approach that’s best for you.

What do I need to do?

Doing nothing, or just coming up with a plan is not enough and leaves your organisation open to high levels of risk. However is it actually possible to be 100% compliant? There’s a low of diminising returns where the investment may be larger than the potential fines.

We believe in the 80% sweet spot – typically denoting a completed risk assesment, discovery, prioritisation of data assets and processses. Full identification complete, active change management and governence through some lower priority items might remain.

Why talk to Demarq?

We’re data management specialists, believe in making GDPR compliance simple. Our phased, stepping stone approach will give you a starting point; or, if you’ve already got things underway, guidance and reassurance that you’re on the right track. We’ll help you fully grasp what GDPR means specifically to your business by assessing the level of risk.

Our consultancy package costs from £5,000 for a discovery phase that will enable you to clearly plan and make decisions around next steps. The discovery phase comprises gap analysis, risk assessment and recommendations. There’s certainly no obligation to buy technology or progress further. You may not even need to.

Demarq advocates that GDPR also brings with it the potential opportunity to realise data and legacy system migration projects that may previously have been deemed low priority or lacking sufficient funding and sponsorship. The benefits of addressing GDPR could therefore be far reaching.

What’s Demarqs approach?

Our approach is based on 5 stages –

Discover – Assess and identify high-risk areas of potential exposure, produce recommendations and determine next steps.

Identify – Access, identify and classify data using proprietary technology to determine where personal data resides.

Govern – Provides the foundation for meeting new requirements. Includes data inventory, lineage and traceability solution across your businesses data assets and workflows.

Protect – Set-up a personal data hub. Secure sensitive and personal data items.

Monitor – Operationalise business processes for ongoing reporting, logging and monitoring of who is using personal data and for what purpose.

Talk to us today

It’s highly likely you’ll have an active GDPR program already underway and we position ourselves as complementing existing engagements and projects. We’d be happy to discuss this further with you or any additional questions you may have.