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Advisory practice
Privacy obligations, security controls and analytics ambitions all fail at the same point: nobody can say authoritatively what data exists, where it lives, or who is accountable for it. Data governance fixes that, and privacy compliance follows from it.
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What we usually find
Outcomes
Data owners, stewards and custodians identified by role, with decision rights and escalation defined rather than assumed.
A classification scheme with a small number of usable tiers, mapped to handling rules and applied to real data assets.
Personal data inventoried with purpose, lawful basis, recipients, transfers and retention — maintained as a live record.
Retention and disposal rules defined per data category and implemented in the systems that hold the data.
What we deliver
Scoped individually or combined into a programme, depending on where you are starting from.
Governance structure, policy set, decision rights, stewardship model and the forum where data issues are actually resolved.
Domain-based ownership assigned to accountable roles, with steward responsibilities defined for quality, access and change.
Inventory of data assets and flows with business and technical metadata, giving a single reference point for governance decisions.
Classification scheme, labelling approach and handling rules covering storage, transmission, access and disposal per tier.
Quality dimensions and rules defined for critical data elements, with measurement, issue routing and remediation ownership.
Records of processing, privacy notices, lawful basis assessment, data subject rights processes, DPIAs and cross-border transfer analysis.
Retention schedules by data category, disposal procedures, and archival rules mapped to legal and regulatory drivers.
ISO/IEC 27701 implementation where you need a certifiable privacy information management system on top of an existing ISMS.
Deliverables
Named outputs, not a workstream description. Every item below is produced by this practice and can be reviewed in draft before it is finalised.
Operating model, decision rights, data ownership and stewardship roles, and the forum that resolves cross-functional data decisions.
What data exists, where it lives, who is accountable for it, what it is used for, and on what basis it is processed.
Classification tiers with objective criteria, and the handling, retention and disposal rules that follow from each tier.
Assessment against applicable privacy obligations, with findings rated and a remediation roadmap sequenced by exposure.
Notices and internal policies drafted to match actual processing, plus reusable impact-assessment templates your teams can run themselves.
Agreed quality dimensions and measures for critical data elements, with lineage documented to the point it can be governed.
Our approach
Each stage produces something you can review before the next one starts. No stage depends on trusting that the previous one went well.
Which regulations apply, which business outcomes depend on data, and where the current pain is concentrated.
Map data domains, systems, flows and personal data processing as they exist today, including the exports and spreadsheets.
Gap analysis against applicable privacy law, contractual commitments and relevant standards, with risk-rated findings.
Operating model, policies, classification scheme, quality rules and retention schedules, agreed with the business owners named in them.
Roll out by domain, starting where regulatory exposure or business value is highest, so governance demonstrates worth early.
Metrics on coverage, quality and issue closure, reported into the governance forum on a defined cadence.
SecureGRC · technology enablement
SecureGRC holds the structural side of data governance — ownership, policies, obligations, privacy risks and the committee that resolves them — so decisions and evidence live in one auditable record.
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Next step
Tell us your current position, what has to be demonstrated and the date it is required by. You will receive a scoped approach with defined stages — not a generic proposal.