Data Protection Compliance Services
The Data Protection Act 1998 is is aimed at ensuring personal data on individuals is adequately secured. But how well do you comply with those requirements as a business? Do you even have a Data Protection Officer?
The affect on your business of not following best practice can be far reaching. If you are fined for a breach against the Act not only do you stand to lose £000s but the damage to your reputation through PR, media and word of mouth could be devastating.
Advent IM offers a wide range of data protection compliance services to help you guard against data security breaches. Using the guidelines in the Act as well as best practice advice in standards such as BS 10012, we can provide the following assitance:
- Full Outsourced Data Protection Advisory Service
- Writing, reviewing and updating of Data Protection Policy
- Data Compliance Checks and Audits against the Act and associated codes of practice
- Data Protection Staff Awareness Training
- Identification of Data Protection responsibilities when offshoring data including compliance the Principle 8 of the Act
- Ad hoc assistance with implemeting new and emerging directives from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
