Data Protection and Compliance

2. The Data Protection Audit

“The Data Protection Audit” is authored by Tim Beadle, Director of the Atrium Group, and produced by the E-Security Exchange. This unit is for professionals or managers who wish to find out what is involved in becoming compliant with the Data Protection Act. The unit assumes an awareness of the Data Protection Act, and what it aims to achieve.  By working through this unit, you will know why a Data Protection Audit is worth doing, and what it involves.

AUDIENCE

Professionals, managers or consultants who wish to find out what is involved in becoming compliant with the Data Protection Act.

LEARNING OUTCOME

* Provide a rationale for undertaking a Data Protection Audit.
* Identify the elements of a project plan for planning and implementing a Data Protection Audit.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

* Explain the purpose and benefits of doing an audit.
* Identify the organisation’s resources and processes that are subject to an audit.
* Identify the activities involved in an audit.
* Articulate some of the practical issues to consider when running an audit.

STRUCTURE

1. Why a Data Protection Audit?
2. What is audited?
3. What is done during an audit?
4. Some practical considerations

About the Author

Tim Beadle, Director Atrium Group

Tim originally studied Law, writing the first ever thesis in the UK on Computers and the Law, some of the recommendations of which became law in the 1984 Data Protection Act. He has worked with data and data privacy for many of the world’s leading companies – Cisco Systems, Johnson & Johnson, AVG, Telegraph Media Group, Oracle/PeopleSoft and RWE nPower are among his clients.  Tim has been very heavily involved in data privacy training – he set up the BSI’s external courses on the subject in 2004. Tim continues to consult and writes and presents on data privacy in the UK and Europe.

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