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Maintain a single source of truth for everything GDPR and scale with confidence

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to every company that collects, stores, or processes personal data from the UK or EU. CyberKainos’ vCISO and Data Protection Officers (DPO’s) are experts in helping to operationalise GDPR with gap assessments, automated evidence collection, and continuous monitoring, so you can scale with confidence.

We provide a full and fast service, with pre-built policies and smart templates that align to this compulsory compliance requirement. Powerful automation collects and organises the evidence you need and prepares documentation to audit ready level to help you achieve this certification fast.

  • Automate evidence gathering and progress tracking
  • Help and guide teams at every turn while returning up to 50% of their time
  • Flexible packages to suit any organisation size
  • Confidently navigate GDPR requirements with our experienced vCISO and DPO experts

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Automate and accelerate assessments

By leveraging powerful automation capabilities, your team can run multiple compliance projects at the same time

Eliminate task duplication

Our technologies inform users if a piece of work or evidence can be used against multiple target frameworks

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Reasons to ensure your GDPR compliance

 

It’s the law

Customers deserve and have the right to know that their personal data is being handled responsibly by organisations they are interacting with.

Unlike other frameworks or standards, GDPR compliance is a legal requirement in the UK and EU, and the financial consequences of non-compliance can be significant.

Organisations that fail to meet GDPR requirements risk fines of up to £17.5 million or 4% of annual global turnover, whichever is higher.

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Get a head start with other frameworks

GDPR controls overlap with other security and privacy frameworks like ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOC 2, and PCI DSS, meaning if you have achieved GDPR compliance, you are also at least part of the way to compliance with at least four other standards.

Once you have done the work or collected the evidence required for GDPR (or it has already been done for the other standards mentioned), powerful automation tools will tell your team it exists, where to find it, and add it to the projects’ evidence repository, completely eliminating task duplication.

Raise standards across the organisation every day

Achieving ongoing GDPR compliance is about maintaining controls and processes around data handling, processing, storage, and transfer.

To succeed, automation and real-time visibility is essential. The last thing leaders need is for new issues to surface close to a re-certification date, resulting in costly delays. We put in place the tools to continuously monitor your systems, immediately flag issues, and generate remediation snippets so teams can resolve failing areas fast.

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We help with more than GDPR. Our expertise extends to over 20 global regulatory frameworks and standards including:

•  ISO 27001 (an international standard for information security management)

•  DORA (a regulation introduced by the European Union to strengthen the digital resilience of financial entities)

•  PCI DSS (a set of guidelines to help organisations that handle credit card information keep that information safe and secure)

•  Cyber Essentials (A UK Govt backed certification scheme, helping organisations demonstrate a minimum level of protection in cybersecurity)

•  SOC2 (A standard to ensure third-party service providers store and process client data in a secure manner)

•  NIST CSF (the latest evolution of a voluntary framework providing organisations with a structured approach to managing cybersecurity risks)

•  HIPPA (A US law to protect confidentiality and security of healthcare information which also impacts UK organisations)

•  CMMC (a cyber security standard designed to improve the cyber security readiness of businesses that work with the US DoD)

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GDPR compliance FAQs

What is GDPR?

GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation. It is a comprehensive data privacy law introduced by the European Union (EU) that came into effect on May 25, 2018. It regulates how businesses collect, store, and process personal data of individuals in the EU and EEA.

Who does GDPR apply to?

GDPR applies to:

  • Any business or organisation that collects or processes the personal data of EU / EEA residents
  • Non-EU companies offering goods or services to EU citizens or monitoring their behaviour

Even if your company is based outside the EU, you may still need to comply with GDPR

What is considered personal data under GDPR?

  • Personal data includes any information that can directly or indirectly identify an individual. Examples include (but are not limited to).
    • Full name
    • Email address
    • Home address
    • IP address
    • Phone number
    • Location data
    • Online identifiers (e.g. cookies)

Is GDPR compliance a one-time task?

No. GDPR compliance is perpetual. Organisations must regularly review data practices, update privacy notices, train staff, and document compliance efforts.

Is GDPR a legal requirement in the UK?

Yes. When the UK left the European Union, it retained the core principles of the EU GDPR which became the UK GDPR effective from January 1, 2021. UK GDPR works alongside the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018).

Organisations can be fined up to £17.5 million or 4% of annual global turnover, whichever is higher for non-compliance.

Do I need consent to process personal data?

In a vast majority of cases, yes. GDPR requires clear and explicit consent from individuals before collecting or processing their data, especially for marketing or tracking purposes. Consent must be:

  • Freely given
  • Informed
  • Unambiguous
  • Easy to withdraw
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