Whitepaper: Guide to drawing up a processing register

The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), since coming into force in 2018, has placed more demands than ever on organizations in terms of their data protection and information security practices. A key part of this has been accountability, which is one of the seven data protection principles set out in Article 5 that all organizations must comply with under the GDPR.

An important part of complying with the accountability and transparency requirements of most organizations is establishing and maintaining a processing register. Depending on the size of the organization and the processing activities that the organization carries out, these documents can be very extensive and complex. Preparing these documents can also take a lot of time because there are many steps to go through, including:

• Have insight into your processes and data processing
• Risk assessment
• Identification of data processors, data sharing and international transfers

This informative free whitepaper provides you with a clear step-by-step plan for building your own processing register. It covers:

• What a processing register is
• Which organizations must have a processing register and why
• Create a processing register
• Maintain a processing register