Our Virtual Chief Information Security Officer, and Virtual Data Protection Officer services support organisations in implementing effective information security and data protection practices. It ensures compliance with relevant information security and data protection standards, and supports organisations to meet their legal requirements in this area.
vCISO
Virtual Chief Information Security Officer
Our virtual Chief Information Security Officer service supports organisations in implementing an effective information security management system. It ensures compliance with relevant information security and data protection standards and ensures that appropriate technical and organisational controls exist to monitor and manage information security appropriately.
We have a flexible VCISO (Virtual Chief Information Security Officer) service that can be either a fully outsourced role, or a supportive/advisory one.
This allows us to tackle exactly what the client needs and support board level cybersecurity discussions, helping to set up appropriate risk management frameworks and Cyber Incident Plans and all those grey areas where IT meets Information Governance.
vDPO
Virtual Data Protection Officer
Under the UK GDPR, you must have a DPO if you are a public authority; carry out large-scale, regular and systematic monitoring of individuals; or process large levels of sensitive data. Even if you don’t meet these criteria, it will still be essential to ensure you comply with data protection legislation and manage ongoing risks to personal information.
By either supporting your existing Data Protection Officer (DPO) or responsible lead, or by directly providing a DPO function, we can help you identify and mitigate against risks to personal information and ensure you continue to meet your legal obligations under data protection and related privacy law. Our key areas of support include creation and implementation of improvement plans, policy and procedure review and development, records of processing and development, and delivery of training and awareness programmes.
Key features of a vCISO:
- Regular oversight, review and reporting in relation to your organisation’s information security practices.
- Identify actions and priorities.
- Perform third party supplier due diligence reviews.
- Provide information security updates which may be of relevance to the organisation.
- Regular review meetings.
- Breach management – providing advice and guidance on appropriate handling of breaches/cyber security incidents.
- Provide guidance and support into technical controls to implement and protect information assets.
- Ad-hoc advice and guidance in any area of information security.
Key features of a vDPO:
- Compliance Reviews: We’ll identify gaps in your current compliance and provide ongoing auditing to ensure continued compliance with DP law.
- Responding to Key Events & Activities: You’ll get advice and support for dealing with data breaches, managing data subject requests or completing DPIAs.
- Ongoing Support to help you remediate: We’ll guide you in implementing appropriate actions to remediate identified risks.
- Further help and advice: Our ongoing advice and guidance in relation to appropriate management of personal information will support continued compliance.
It can be difficult to understand how much, if any, support you may need from the likes of a vCISO or vDPO. We have worked with hundreds of clients supporting and guiding them in these areas and will always provide honest and clear guidance on how, where and if a vCISO or vDPO service is right for your needs. In addition, we can deliver a merged approach between the vCISO and the vDPO to ensure all areas are covered where necessary.
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