Data Protection Audit and Gap Analysis
A structured data protection audit can help you understand your current compliance position, identify gaps and prioritise practical improvements based on your organisation's risks.
Comprehensive Data Protection Audits
A data protection audit provides a structured review of how an organisation manages personal data, documentation, processes and controls. We assess the current position and provide clear findings so that you have a practical understanding of where improvements may be required. We define the scope of the data protection audit and review relevant policies, processes, documentation, governance arrangements and controls.
We assess the current position, identify compliance gaps and risks, and provide prioritised findings with practical recommendations for improvement. The resulting findings provide a clear basis for deciding which improvements should be addressed first and which can form part of a longer-term compliance plan.
GDPR Audit and Data Privacy Audit Support
Our GDPR audit approach considers relevant compliance requirements alongside how data protection works in practice. A data privacy audit can identify weaknesses in governance, documentation, processes and controls, helping you distinguish priority issues from longer-term improvements.
Our data protection audit can examine governance, policies, processing activities, data subject rights, security arrangements, supplier management, documentation and relevant controls. A GDPR audit or data privacy audit can also be focused on specific areas of concern.
Turn Audit Findings into Action
An audit is most valuable when it leads to meaningful improvement. We translate findings into prioritised recommendations and practical next steps, helping your organisation address gaps in a proportionate way and strengthen its wider data protection framework.
Understanding Your Current Compliance Position
Our audit support is suitable for organisations that need an objective view of their current data protection position, want to identify compliance gaps or require a prioritised route towards improvement.
Prioritised Remediation Plans
We focus on making audit findings practical and actionable. Rather than simply producing observations, we help organisations understand the significance of identified gaps, prioritise risks and establish clear next steps.
Gap analyses and control reviews
Our team has carried out a gap analysis for an Irish sports retailer and prioritised the remediation that followed, and reviewed every UK data protection control at a global financial institution, with quarterly reports to senior stakeholders.
Read more →Data Protection Audit FAQs
A data protection audit is a structured review of an organisation's data protection processes, controls, documentation and governance.
A GDPR audit reviews relevant arrangements against applicable data protection requirements and identifies areas where improvement may be needed.
A data privacy audit examines how personal information is managed and highlights risks, weaknesses and opportunities to improve privacy practices.
Why organisations choose us
Senior expertise
You work directly with an experienced data protection consultant, not a junior team. The person who scopes your project is the person who delivers it.
Clear communication
We explain what the law requires, what it means for you and what to do next, in plain English.
Practical, proportionate advice
We focus on what matters for your organisation: risk-based recommendations and documents your team will actually use.
Tailored to your organisation
We shape our work around your size, sector, systems and appetite for risk.
Not sure this is the right place to start?
The free review tells you where you stand across the whole organisation, and what's worth doing first. It's the same starting point for every engagement we run.