Embed Privacy and Security Culture Within Your Organization

Drive employee engagement with privacy and security via governance and process integration.
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Major Business Pain Points

Engagement with privacy and security within organizations has not kept pace with the increasing demands from regulations. As a result, organizations often find themselves saying they support privacy and security engagement but struggling to create behavioral changes in their staff.

However, with new privacy and security requirements proliferating globally, we can’t help but wonder how much longer we can carry on with this approach.

Embed Privacy and Security Culture Within Your Organization-Pain Points

Recommendations

Key Points

To truly take hold, privacy and security engagement must be supported by senior leadership, aligned with business objectives, and embedded within each of the organization’s operating groups and teams.

Approach

Embed Privacy and Security Culture Within Your Organization-Recommendations
  • Develop a defined structure for privacy and security in the context of your organization, your obligations, and your objectives.
  • Align your business goals and strategy with privacy and security to obtain support from your senior leadership team.
  • Identify and implement a set of metrics to monitor the success of each of the six engagement enablers amongst your team.
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Methodology and Tools

Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should develop a culture of privacy and security at your organization, review the methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

  • Embed Privacy and Security Culture Within Your Organization – Executive Brief
  • Embed Privacy and Security Culture Within Your Organization – Phases 1-3

1. Define privacy and security in the context of the organization

Use the charter template to document the primary outcomes and objectives for the privacy and security engagement program within the organization and map the organizational structure to each of the respective roles to help develop a culture of privacy and security.

  • Privacy and Security Engagement Charter

2. Map your privacy and security enablers

This tool maps business objectives and key strategic goals to privacy and security objectives and attributes identified as a part of the overall engagement program. Leverage the alignment tool to ensure your organizational groups are mapped to their corresponding enablers and supporting metrics.

  • Privacy and Security Business Alignment Tool

3. Identify and track your engagement indicators

This document maps out the organization’s continued efforts in ensuring employees are engaged with privacy and security principles, promoting a strong culture of privacy and security. Use the playbook to document and present the organization’s custom plan for privacy and security culture.

  • Privacy and Security Engagement Playbook

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