Future Proof Your Privacy with a Robust and Scalable Compliance Plan
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Customers trust organisations with a vast amount of their personal data, from names, addresses, and payment information to get purchases delivered to biometrics and wearable tech data with sensitive information about their activities and health.
Businesses have access to more customer data than ever before, and it’s vital that they safeguard this data effectively. Regulatory requirements worldwide strive to ensure that organisations do just that.
However, while regulatory compliance is vital for ensuring your organisation’s approach to data privacy is robust and effective, these requirements aren’t static. Nor is compliance simply a tick-box exercise. Organisations must be prepared to adapt their compliance efforts as regulations and their business operations evolve and scale.
Data Privacy Regulations Have Global Impact
Data privacy regulations vary geographically, but each regulation has a broader impact, even if your organisation isn’t physically located in a specific territory. For example, the scope of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulates how organisations manage the data of EU residents and citizens. The same concept applies to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which governs how organisations manage and secure the data of California residents.
Other global data privacy regulations include Brazil’s General Data Protection Law, Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD), which applies to organisations that process personal data in Brazil or process data of Brazilian residents. In China, the China Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) applies to organisations that process personally identifiable information (PII) in China and organisations that process the data of China citizens outside of China.
Compliance is the Cornerstone of Privacy Success
Data privacy is a key issue across the globe, and businesses that demonstrate their privacy compliance see a range of benefits:
Protect customer data: The privacy processes you implement to comply with global data privacy regulations put your organisation in a robust position to protect the data you process.
Improve brand reputation: Compliance shows customers, stakeholders, prospects, and suppliers that you care about their privacy and are taking steps to protect it.
Reduce risk: Embedding data privacy compliance practices across your organisation enables you to assess, manage, and address risk more effectively, preventing data breaches and other cyber-attacks.
Achieve operational efficiencies: Implementing data privacy best practices can help streamline your organisation’s data governance, saving time and resources.
Reduce costs and avoid fines: Data breaches are costly for organisations—the global average cost of a data breach in 2024 was $4.88m. Privacy compliance enables organisations to prevent data breaches and potential fines for data breaches or regulatory non-compliance.
Future-proof your business: Compliance with existing data privacy regulations acts as a foundation for your organisation’s ongoing compliance. This building block allows you to adapt and evolve your privacy strategy as new regulations are developed or as your business scales and your compliance obligations change.
The Challenges of Building a Scalable Compliance Plan
Global privacy regulations have the same core objective – to improve data privacy – but many requirements vary.
This can pose challenges for businesses that must comply with multiple regulations, such as those operating in the EU and the US. For example, GDPR compliance requires opt-in consent for data collection; CCPA compliance doesn’t require explicit opt-in consent but requires California consumers to have the right to opt out of having their data sold. Businesses operating in both territories must ensure their processes comply with both requirements. The regulations also have differing definitions of personal data and privacy policy requirements.
Additionally, as organisations grow, many find it difficult to scale the manual processes they’ve implemented to ensure compliance, such as risk assessment and treatment. Lack of centralisation and visibility are also potential issues for organisations working to comply with multiple regulatory frameworks; they can lead to duplication of efforts, wasted time and resources, and a crucial lack of oversight across projects.
Many organisations leverage purpose-built privacy management tools, such as the ISMS.online platform to address this.
ISMS.online enables you to centralise your compliance management with 360-degree oversight of project progress in a personalised, dynamic dashboard. It also provides scalable features designed to grow with your business’s needs, whether that’s broadening the scope of your operations, entering new territories, or achieving compliance with key standards and regulations, including those outside of the data privacy remit, for example, information security standard ISO 27001—or any of the 100+ other frameworks we support.
We provide pre-configured frameworks for GDPR compliance, CCPA compliance, and the ISO 27001 privacy information management extension ISO 27701, allowing you to implement global data privacy quickly across your organisation and take the stress out of compliance.
How to Future Proof Privacy with a Scalable Compliance Plan
How can you build a privacy strategy that evolves with regulatory and operational changes? Using a single, centralised platform can help you gather all your policies and processes in one place for clear oversight, eliminating silos and reducing redundancy and duplication. Many privacy compliance tools, such as ISMS.online, can automatically generate reports and automate risk management, saving you time and reducing the risk of potential errors.
Adopting scalable frameworks like ISO 27701 can also help your organisation ensure readiness for new compliance requirements. The standard is regulation-agnostic; ISO 27701 compliance and certification enable you to develop, implement, maintain, and improve a privacy information management system (PIMS) to manage and safeguard PII. This structured framework gives you the foundations to build on to achieve compliance with data privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA and prepare for future compliance requirements.
The comprehensive, user-friendly ISMS.online platform is designed to make global data privacy compliance accessible for everyone, from experienced data protection officers to newly onboarded staff. In the platform, you can easily customise policy templates to reflect your organisation’s needs, share core policy packs for specific departments to read, automatically link risk to controls, assign risks to staff, and automate risk review reminders.
Future Proof Your Global Data Privacy
Data privacy requirements will only continue to evolve. For businesses, this means not only complying with today’s regulatory requirements but also preparing for tomorrow’s compliance challenges.
Streamlining your data privacy in centralised privacy management software can help you stop scrambling to keep up with today’s requirements and get ahead of them instead. Allow compliance to be a catalyst for your growth – ISMS.online makes data privacy compliance intuitive, efficient, and scalable.
Are you ready to simplify your compliance? Schedule your demo to discover how ISMS.online can help your organisation thrive.
Expand Your Knowledge
Infographic: Five Steps to Better Data Privacy in Your Organisation
Blog: Everything You Need to Know About the ISO 27701 Data Privacy Standard
Blog: An Integrated Approach: How ISMS.online Achieved ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 Recertification
