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The Top 10 Most Common Privacy Assessments

Companies face a wide range of regulatory and business requirements which create privacy compliance risk. To mitigate risk and avoid penalties and fines, businesses must address various legal requirements and best practices to build an action plan that identifies data privacy gaps and manages remediation activities.

Key takeaways include:

Understand the most commonly used privacy assessments

Know which assessments are specific to regulations

The role of assessments in global privacy management

DPIAs, Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs),
and Vendor / Third Party Risk are the
most popular type of privacy assessments
and are used significantly more often than
popular security assessments such as ISO
27001 and NIST.

DPIAs, Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), and Vendor / Third Party Risk are the most popular type of privacy assessments and are used significantly more often than popular security assessments such as ISO 27001 and NIST.

– U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Prepare for the compliance challenges of privacy and security laws

Privacy assessments can be used to keep up with new laws, amendments to laws, and new frameworks. Find the assessments that make the most sense for your business.

About TrustArc

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