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Assessment Manager

Simplify and accelerate privacy risk & vendor assessments

Your privacy program is shaped by unique regulatory obligations, business processes, vendors, and internal workflows. TrustArc’s Assessment Manager streamlines these privacy and vendor assessments with configurable, automated tools—built specifically to match your organization’s processes and scale your program effectively.

Fully customizable assessments tailored to your privacy program

Assessment Manager makes it easy to configure assessment templates, customize question types, and dynamically adjust response flows. Quickly identify privacy gaps, assign remediation tasks, and manage completion status—all within one intuitive solution. Easily track your assessment progress, document tasks for audits, and produce structured reports (e.g., DPIAs, PIAs) aligned to regulatory requirements and your internal privacy goals.

Fully customizable assessments tailored to your privacy program

Assessment Manager makes it easy to configure assessment templates, customize question types, and dynamically adjust response flows. Quickly identify privacy gaps, assign remediation tasks, and manage completion status—all within one intuitive solution. Easily track your assessment progress, document tasks for audits, and produce structured reports (e.g., DPIAs, PIAs) aligned to regulatory requirements and your internal privacy goals.

Clearly highlight and address potential privacy risks

Assessment Manager streamlines your assessment workflow by surfacing high-risk responses and automatically assigning follow-up tasks to the right teams. Track progress, update assessment statuses, and keep risks from slipping through the cracks. When used with TrustArc’s privacy risk solutions, tasks and risk updates feed into a near real-time view of your overall privacy risk posture.

Easily assess privacy risk

Pre-built expert templates

Save time with 10+ ready-to-use privacy assessments—including DPIAs, PIAs, vendor risk, transfer impact assessments, AI risk reviews, and more—continuously updated by TrustArc’s in-house privacy experts as regulations evolve.

Automated workflows

Streamline your assessment processes with automated conditional logic and task triggers. Dynamically surface relevant questions based on responses, simplify follow-up actions, and eliminate manual spreadsheet tracking.

Structured assessment reporting

Quickly generate clear reports (including Executive Summaries, Assessment Status Reports, and Detailed Assessments) to measure operational KPIs, manage remediation tasks, and demonstrate assessment compliance internally and externally.

With TrustArc, the ability to manage data subject requests in combination with data inventory and risk assessments is key.

Director of Privacy and Cybersecurity

TrustArc’s robust risk assessment and mitigation features are exceptional.

Justin Y., G2 Review

TrustArc assessments are helpful in gathering and analyzing data from multiple sources, allowing us to gain greater insight into our business operations and make smarter decisions about long-term strategies.

Brittany M., G2 Review

Assessment Manager allows us to better streamline the PIA process so that no new processes slip through the cracks. It has made it significantly easier to manage PIAs between all of the people who need to access and review it, from submission to completion.

Chris S., G2 Review

Honestly, It is a time and cost-saving platform for data privacy management, security assessment, and workflow management. Its user-friendly interface makes it easy to use and navigate without the need for any additional documentation.

Nishant S., G2 Review

    Take the pain out of risk assessments

    Say goodbye to slow manual processes, homemade privacy assessments using survey tools, or error-ridden spreadsheets for tracking. Start using specialized privacy-first assessment management software designed to automate and streamline your workflow to make life easier.

    TrustArc vs Competitors

     

    Capability TrustArc Assessment Manager Other Assessment Solutions
    Privacy-first assessment workflows Built for PIAs, DPIAs, TIAs, vendor, AI, and LIA workflows Often broader GRC, vendor, or questionnaire tools adapted for privacy
    Dynamic assessment logic Conditional logic adapts questions and follow-up based on responses Available in some tools but lack privacy-specific context
    Remediation tasking Auto-generates follow-up tasks from defined assessment responses Often requires manual follow-up or separate workflow setup
    Reassessment management

    		Configurable revalidation cycles and reminders keep assessments current Often handled through manual reminders or separate scheduling
    Multi-stakeholder review

    		Routes reviews across privacy, legal, security, and business teams Usually supports routing, but may require heavier configuration
    AI risk assessments

    		Includes AI risk and AI use assessment templates AI assessment support varies by vendor and maturity
    Integrations

    		Connects through 300+ integrations and no-code workflow recipes Integration breadth varies by vendor and package
    Best fit

    		Privacy teams that need repeatable, governed risk assessment workflows Business teams that need generic assessments or broader GRC questionnaires

    Assessment Manager FAQs

    • What is a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)?

      A PIA is used to identify and address potential privacy risks associated with projects or systems that involve personal information.PIAs help organizations ensure compliance with privacy laws, build privacy into project design from the start, and avoid costly issues or non-compliance down the line.

    • What privacy and risk assessments does TrustArc Assessment Manager support?

      Automate and score privacy and risk assessments — including PIAs, DPIAs, TIAs, LIAs, vendor risk, and AI risk — to streamline your compliance workflow. Assessment Manager includes a library of expert-designed templates maintained by the TrustArc Privacy Knowledge team and updated as regulations evolve.

      Every assessment runs through a structured workflow with conditional question logic, role-based routing, automated task creation, and revalidation cycles. For risk scoring, regulatory aggregation, and enterprise reporting, Assessment Manager is integrated with and pairs with TrustArc Data Mapping & Risk Manager.

    • How does the Assessment Manager reduce manual assessment workflows?

      Assessment Manager replaces manual tracking by running the full risk and vendor assessment lifecycle in one application. Conditional logic surfaces only the questions each respondent needs to answer, responses automatically generate remediation tasks, and approvals are embedded in the workflow through role-based routing.

      Configurable revalidation cycles also re-run recurring assessments on schedule, removing the manual reminders and spreadsheet tracking that typically slow privacy teams down.

    • Which regulations do automated assessments support?

      Assessment Manager can be used with any jurisdiction such as GDPR and CCPA. Out-of-the-box assessments include international data transfer, DPIA, PIA, Third-Party Vendor Risk, AI Risk, EU AI Risk, Legitimate Interest Assessment, and more.

    • Can assessment workflows assign ownership and track accountability across teams?

      Yes. Assessment Manager operationalizes accountability across privacy, legal, security, and business teams through role-based assignment of sections and tasks, approval routing driven by predefined rules, and named owners for completion and review. Privacy teams get real-time visibility into open actions and pending approvals, with full control over the assessment workflow.

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