Data Protection Impact Assessments

PROBLEM

Risk & Impact Assessment

Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) are now a legal must-have, but they’re a friction-filled challenge for developers, data teams and privacy specialists that rarely actually improve risk mitigation.

SOLUTION

Ethyca Assessments as Code

Build DPIAs into the coding workflow by allowing them to be submitted via command line, to an API or even via Slackbot. Privacy teams configure a risk threshold which Ethyca uses to review and assess escalated risks.

Data Protection Impact Assessment Features

Learn more about Ethyca’s code based workflow for significantly reducing CI/CD friction and ensuring high-quality risk assessment.

Risk Assessments as Code

Easily create an impact assessment for a new business process as code via CLI or Slackbot.

Define Risk Level Thresholds

Simply define and manage risk thresholds based on data sensitivity, processing activities and business rules.

Automatically Identify High Risks

Ethyca automatically evaluates all requests and flags high risk processes for manual review and subsequent remediation.

Automated Report Generation

Ethyca automatically generates human readable risk analysis reports for all processes providing a comprehensive audit trail.

Risk & Impact Assessments in Action

Learn how Ethyca’s Developer Tools for Impact Assessment streamline CI/CD, reduce risk and increase compliance.

A Single Workflow for Risk & Access Control

To minimize CI/CD friction in risk assessment, Ethyca combines workflows for access request changes and automated risk assessment. By requesting data access, teams automate a background risk assessment process.

Code Based Workflow

Ethyca removes the typical, time-consuming and complex risk assessment process and replaces it with code based submissions for developers and data teams. Simplifying and speeding up workflows - increasing participation and safety.

Rapid Visibility of High Risk Issues

Ethyca sorts and rapidly identifies high risk activities by assessing data being processed, nature of the processing activity, consent requirements, requestors clearance level and duration of business process.

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