Demonstrate the Status of Your Privacy Program


Demonstrate the Status of a Privacy Program


    Organizations often want to report on the status of their privacy program to internal stakeholders and, in some cases, external stakeholders.

Organizations report the status of their privacy program by conducting:

Assertion: The privacy office reports the status of the privacy program based on their knowledge gained by implementing and maintaining the privacy program.

Attestation: The privacy office reports the status of the privacy program and attests to its effectiveness, possibly by conducting survey-based assessments to attain evidence to support the assertion.

Demonstrating Accountability

Compliance and Accountability Charts

Validation: The organization may choose to validate the status of the privacy program using a more rigorous assessment method such as an internal audit.

Verification: The organization uses an external entity to assure the effectiveness of their privacy program and optionally to provide some form of certification or Trustmark.


How Nymity Helps

Reference Research
Risks/Controls Research

Research Tools

Understand privacy assessment expectations from authority sources.

Utilize risks and controls checklists to assist in conducting a privacy assessment and mitigating the gaps found in the assessment.


Accountability Reporting

Software Tools

Demonstrate the status of your privacy program to internal and possibly, external stakeholders.

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