Mitigate data privacy risks by GDPR awareness training.

Author: Chris Jo

It is essential to make sure that all the staff in the organization are appropriately trained in General Data Protection Regulation which came into effect months ago. Each and every in an organization shares equal opportunity to secure or protect the clients’ personal information in a proper way. Data protection experts play an important role in managing this individual information that has collected for business purposes. They have continuously maintained staff training as a crucial part of GDPR compliance. The informed workforce will reduce your risk of data breaches.

Taking a GDPR awareness training can help the organization to:

  • Enhance personal privacy rights

  • Increase duty for protecting data

  • Mandatory breach reporting

  • Significant penalties for non-compliance

Before going deeply into GDPR awareness it is more important to understand what is personal data and how to handle it properly. Personal data can be defined as any information relating to a known or identifiable natural person or a person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly.

Data Privacy course is mainly intended to give employees with a brief understanding of personal data or information, the consequences of not adhering to appropriate laws and regulations, and employees’ responsibilities with respect to data protection. According to the convenience, participants can attend online or classroom training.

Benefits of GDPR staff training

  • Reduce the risk of breaches

  • Make staff feel empowered and comfortable

  • Staff understands and have the right knowledge of the legislation

Organizations that need to be EU GDPR compliant are

  • Those companies (controllers and processors) established in the EU, regardless of whether or not the processing takes place within the EU.

  • Those companies (which controls and process the personal data) not organized in the EU offering goods or services within the EU or to EU individuals.

6 data protection principles

1. Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency

2. Purpose Limitation

3. Data minimization

4. Accuracy

5. Understand the storage limitation

6. Integrity and confidentiality

These six principles provide a summary of the areas which are covered in the GDPR awareness training, but they are very far from absolute theory. The rest of the Rules and regulation goes into much more detail on the particular practices that organizations should undertake to make sure they remain compliant.

9 steps you can take now to get prepared for GDPR

  1. Determine if the GDPR applies to your business.

  2. Audit your processes and be able to map the location of all the personal data you’ve collected.

  3. Position your company as privacy-forward.

  4. Hire a data protection officer.

  5. Look at your partners.

  6. Keep an eye on your competitors and enemies.

  7. Get certified.

  8. Don’t panic.

It is vital to understand and implement GDPR by every employees or staff in an organization to avoid heavy data breaches which can lead to hefty penalties?up to €20 million or 4% of global annual turnover and for less important breaches fine up to €10 million or 2% of global annual turnover. Many different reasons can be the reason for fine the business. Firstly identify the main area that you have to concentrate and work on it for securing the personal information and to maintain customer trust without further data breaches.