1446 breaches reported to the ICO in the first quarter of 2020/21. With lockdown and people working from home what will quarter 2 figures be? Do you and your team adhere to GDPR best practice? Do you know what best practice is?

Many organisations buy in low cost online GDPR training. Staff read a few pages of text and answer some basic questions and then having “passed” the evaluation go back to their normal behaviour.

The box has been ticked, the training given and knowledge assessed BUT behaviour seldom changes.

Our face to face training brings home the hard facing realities of what people need to do to ensure GDPR is considered for every task and action.

Is ALL your sensitive data locked away

Do doors to private rooms really stay locked

Is sensitive information lingering in your email boxes, in/sent/filed/deleted ?

Is your privacy policy GDPR compliant? when did you last look at it?

What about your storage and destruction policy, do you share it? is it easily understood?

The vast majority of breaches are down to human error, people not understanding the rules and not following them. Worse still they may know they are breaking the rules but are too scared to say anything – your systems, policies, procedures, resources might actually be preventing GDPR compliance.

Its easier and cheaper to stick a work in progress file in a tray than lock it up, until a breach occurs that is

Our GDPR training will help you, management and staff get back on track.