GDPR Awareness Training

The GDPR came into effect in May 2018. This legislation is designed to guide organisations in their obligations relative to the processing of personal and sensitive data.

Organisations are required to comply with the GDPR regardless of their size of business. If you process ‘personal data’, there is a potential need to be compliant with the legislation. The scope of the GDPR considers how this information is collected, stored, used, transported, shared and disposed of.

To ensure organisations' understand this obligation, this interactive one-day course considers both scoping and auditing of an organisations processing activities, as well as an understanding of compliance with GDPR. 

Learning Outcomes;

• GDPR – what is it and how does it apply to us?
• Personal and sensitive data
• Lawful basis for processing
• Consent and the GDPR
• The Data Protection Act 2018
• Data Subject rights
• The role of the ICO
• Data breach or Incident?
• Privacy by Design and by default
• GDPR Audit checklist

There are no prerequisites to attend this course, however all attendees are expected to have a basic understanding of the Data Protection principles.

Refreshments & Lunch (Classroom courses only)

Course Slide Deck

Quizzes

The course is designed for any member of the organisation whose role includes processing personal data. Data Protection Officers, Information Security team members or Information Governance Leads who may also see benefit in attending.

There is no exam with this course but delegates do receive a Course Attendance Certificate and an 8 hour CPD Certificate.

This course is Accredited by NACS and Administered by the IECB