You’ve spent a lot of time, money and axle grease getting your data protection project off the ground. You really don’t want to see it fall back down again. What you need is to repair it mid-flight, but with so many moving parts, you need an extra set of hands. Let us help you keep your eyes on the horizon by giving you a data protection audit that will show you where the holes are and how to patch them.

Run a GDPR, POPIA or data protection audit through Michalsons

Michalsons has helped hundreds of data protection compliance projects through take-off, and we’re here to help keep you in the air.

Why a data protection audit?

For better or worse, data protection compliance isn’t a tick-box exercise. Which means it requires more attention to make sure that the measures you put in place yesterday are still working today. That’s not an easy thing to do while you’re trying to make progress on every other aspect of your project. You need to run a data protection audit to figure out:

  • Where is your project non-compliant;
  • Which non-compliant part is most dangerous (to you or your data subjects); and
  • What should you do to fix them.

With these answers, you can start putting resources into filling the gaps in your compliance before they grow any bigger.

How can we help you

We can help you save time and money by catching the cracks in your project before they turn into major fractures. This will keep you moving forward, and lower the chance of running into unexpected complaints, breaches, fines or investigations.

We do this by comparing your compliance project or activities against a structured data privacy framework or data protection compliance framework. Each of our options listed below involves one of our experienced data protection specialists checking how you do what you do, gathering evidence, and finding areas for improvement.

We will compare your data protection project against the compliance framework that you have developed, to check whether you have met the various objectives that you have set yourself. This works best where you have built and implemented a structured framework of auditable actions or controls, and need extra help checking that they have been met.

Choose this option where you want us to audit your data protection project against your compliance framework.

We will compare your data protection project against the Michalsons compliance framework, to check whether you have met the objectives that we have identified as being most important to your organisation. This works best where you have not yet built or implemented a structured framework of auditable actions or controls, or want an outside eye that is not bound by your own framework.

Choose this option where you want us to audit your data protection project against our compliance framework.

We will compare various of your data protection processes or activities against the Michalsons compliance framework, to check whether the processes or framework that you have put together meet data protection best practice. This works best where you have built and implemented a compliance framework of your own, but want to check that you have included or accounted for everything that you should.

Choose this option where you want us to review your data protection processes, like your compliance framework or how you record your processing activities.

While there are many similarities between data protection audits and gap analyses, they are distinct processes with different focuses and results.

Click this link where you want to find out more about data protection gap analyses.

Our experience

Michalsons has helped hundreds of clients to plan, implement and sustain their data protection projects for many years. We know which problems crop up most often, and where to look for those that like to remain hidden. Best of all, we have an independent eye that will help us see your efforts objectively, giving you insight into what your regulatory authority might pick up and hang onto.

Our clients

Michalsons has performed data protection audits of various sizes for a wide range of clients over the years.

We are able to scale our services up or down, depending on your organisation’s needs or goals. We have experience with both comprehensive and streamlined data protection audits, for multinationals, SMMEs and more.

How you benefit

By appointing us to perform your data protection audit, you will:

  • Clarity – take the next right step, by having a clear report on the best way forward;
  • Time – spend your time effectively, by having us do the heavy-lifting for sustaining your compliance project;
  • Money – spend less money, by having us fix small compliance issues before they grow larger;
  • Risk – lower your risk of complaints, investigations or fines, by having us focus on the riskiest areas of your business.