Data Protection Officer On-Demand – When You Need It
Risk Crew’s DPO-on-Demand service provides expert guidance to help your organisation meet UK Data Protection Act Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018 requirements. You get experienced, on-hand support to handle data protection tasks like reviewing processor agreements, conducting privacy impact assessments, managing subject access requests, and responding to potential breaches.
With a dedicated data protection professional ready when you need them, this flexible service ensures you stay compliant without the overhead. It’s a smart solution in a market facing a shortage of qualified DPOs and high turnover rates.
Dedicated Resource
We provide a dedicated data protection expert to assume the daily roles, responsibilities and activities of a DPO required for the business’s compliance.
Dedicated Resource
We provide an experienced data protection expert to take on the daily responsibilities of a DPO, ensuring your business meets its compliance obligations. Acting as your in-house resource, the DPO represents your organisation’s data protection interests to staff, clients, data controllers, processors, and sub-processors.
Template Documentation
Risk Crew drafts customised policies to include subject access requests forms, privacy impact assessment checklists and breach notification forms for customisation.
Telephone Support
Continuous telephone support throughout the engagement to provide ongoing support and assistance in addition to on-site activities.
Risk Crew Deliverables
Deliverables will be customised to your exact requirements. Your DPO will agree their task to be undertaken on their dedicated days prior with you, so that you decide exactly how the time is spent.
Typical activities would include:
✓ Administering Data Protection compliance training to staff
✓Liaison with Data Controllers, Data Processors and Sub-Processors
✓Oversight and management of Data Protection compliance programme
✓Record keeping of processing operations
✓ Incident response and assessment
✓ Conducting Privacy Impact Assessments
✓ Breach notification to Data Protection Supervisory Authority
✓ Responding to Subject Access Requests
Risk Crew Benefits
Rules of engagement are developed in collaboration with business stakeholders and all activities are coordinated with the appropriate stakeholder to ensure objectives are clear and business disruption does not occur.
This straight-forward pragmatic service has numerous benefits to your business.
Multi-skilled
DPOs can utilise other internal Risk Crew experts in information security governance risk and compliance to support your overall data protection programme objectives.
Efficiency
DPOs’ expert knowledge enables faster and easier implementation of required action in a practice-oriented way – specific to your business requirements.
Flexibility
The service can be utilised as a short or medium-term fix until you can recruit a permanent qualified and experienced DPO for your business.
Synergy
External DPOs can make use of their experience from other organisations for your benefit by providing both a benchmark and validation for your compliance.
Independence
DPOs are required to act in an independent manner. CEOs, IT, HR and Legal Advisors are not allowed to work as DPOs, which can make selecting an independent DPO challenging.
Cost-effective
The DPO on-Demand service may well be more price-effective than long-term costs of deploying your own staff resources.
Why Choose Risk Crew
Our skilled and experienced consultants implement industry-proven information security & risk management methodologies, gap assessments, auditing and data protection & privacy policies to enable you to efficiently meet your DPA 2018 and GDPR compliance requirements.
When you choose Risk Crew, you’re electing to work with qualified experts.
Experienced Practitioners
Risk Crew has over 18 years of practical knowledge
Best Practice
Risk Crew follows best practices including ISO 27001, PCI, Data Protection Act 2018 and the GDPR
Accredited
ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certified
Certified
Consultants hold CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CISM and CSX certifications
Deploy an experienced Data Protection Officer to ensure DPA 2018 & GDPR compliance in your business.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does a DPO do?
Generally speaking, a DPO is responsible for educating the organisation about compliance, training employees who process personal data, conducting privacy impact assessments associated with any changes in processing, responding to subject access requests and conducting routine security audits to ensure security controls deployed to protect sensitive personal data are effective. DPOs also serve as the point of contact between the organisation and any Supervisory Authorities (SAs) that oversee activities related to compliance (like the UK Information Commissioner’s Office).
Who does a DPO report to?
A DPO should be independent, an expert in data protection, adequately resourced, and report to the highest management level possible.
Is having a DPO mandatory?
Appointing a DPO is mandatory under three circumstances:
- The organisation is a public authority or body.
- The organisation’s core activities consist of data processing operations that require regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale.
- The organisation’s core activities consist of large-scale processing of special categories of data (sensitive data such as personal information on health, religion, race or sexual orientation) and/or personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences.
Can I outsource this requirement?
Yes. The GDPR allows organisations to outsource this requirement and appoint an external DPO acting under a service contract. Given the shortage of trained and experienced personnel, outsourcing this requirement can also be an extremely cost-effective solution.