1. Five Steps to Ensure Sustainable Five Steps to Ensure Sustainable GDPR Compliance GDPR Compliance Currently, all companies and businesses across the globe must comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation also known as GDPR. Irrespective of where you are based, it includes all who are supplying services and products to EU organizations and citizens. It is clear that if you are found out to be noncompliant with the GDPR, it could likely lead to serious damages such as legal cost, hefty fines, but also hurt the reputation of your business. Then again, personal information has significant value and when personal data is managed correctly, it can generate significant competitive benefits. Since May 2018, every citizen in the European Union (EU) has the right to know and choose how their personal information is being stored, used, transferred, protected, and deleted. Putting the GDPR into operation will affect your company. You will need to audit how personal online date is managed as well as take into account how your data governance framework and data management will sustain GDPR necessities. If your company processes or collects personal information, it is crucial to be familiar with the specifics of the GDPR. Even though it might seem challenging, there are some methods to make the process more manageable. This article will show you five steps to ensure sustainable GDPR compliance. Access: To start off with the GDPR compliance process, it is important to review all your data sources. Regardless of the technology – data in motion and data at rest, unstructured and structured data, Hadoop clusters as well as traditional data warehouses, you must examine and audit what personal information is being used and stored across your data landscape. If you are unsure how to perform an examination and an audit, you could always appoint a GDPR compliance audit service company to help you with the process. Identify: Once you have retrieved all the data sources, you will need to examine them to distinguish what personal data can be recovered. Usually, this data is hidden but you will need to obtain, group and list private data elements such as social security numbers, email addresses, names, and any other classification of personal data as defined under the GDPR. Moreover, it is also crucial to adapt changeable degrees of data quality. Factors such as standardization, data quality rules, and patterns recognition are important

2. facets of this procedure. Having the proper tools to execute this assignment will make a major difference, however, a reputable audit service company can make the job so much easier for you. Govern: You need to become familiar with what personal data or private information is, and then communicate this understanding amongst your employees. Personal data should only be accessed by individuals with appropriate authority, with established justifications for usage, identified rights associated with user groups, and the nature of the personal data. To achieve this, definitions and roles must be determined in an authority or corporate governance model. You can accomplish this with the aid of a GDPR compliance toolkit obtained from a reputable GDPR compliance audit service company. Protect: Once the governance model and personal data inventory are established, you need to set up the proper level of security for the data. To be GDPR compliant, three methods can be implemented to secure your data such as anonymization, pseudonymization, and encryption. Audit and Assess: The last step in your venture to become GDPR compliance requires auditing. At this phase it will be required of you to provide reports that reveals the following:  You know what personal information you have and where it is located at;  You correctly administer the manner for obtaining approval from individuals who are involved;  You can verify how private data is used, for what purpose and who uses it;  You have the correct processes in place to be able to oversee factors such as data breach notification, the right to be forgotten, and more. To adopt GDPR compliance, you can’t put your faith in common perception or knowledge of where you believe private information might be. The GDPR insists on businesses and organizations proving that they know where the data is. The best way to ensure you are GDPR compliance is with the help of a reputable compliance audit service company. About Us Tacita is a GDPR compliance audit company based in the United Kingdom. Our focus is on assisting companies and organisations to achieve and maintain GDPR compliance easy and cost-effectively as possible. As a reputable company, we strive in giving companies self-assurance that they are doing the

3. right thing, and GDPR compliance peace of mind. We focus exclusively on GDPR assessments so are truly independent. We have a range of services to suit all organisations and budgets. We don't leave you with a problem, we 'close the loop' and provide prescribed solutions for the recommendations. For more information visit https://www.tacita.io/