GDPR Risk Assessment
A practical GDPR risk assessment helps your organisation identify privacy risks, evaluate existing safeguards and determine proportionate measures to protect individuals.
Practical GDPR Risk Assessment
A GDPR risk assessment helps organisations understand where personal data processing may create risks for individuals or expose the organisation to compliance challenges. We examine relevant activities and provide a structured view of the risks that require consideration. We define the processing activity being assessed, consider its nature and purpose, identify potential risks to individuals and review existing safeguards.
Our GDPR risk assessment approach then considers the significance of those risks and identifies proportionate measures to address them. The assessment is grounded in the organisation’s actual processing rather than a generic checklist, allowing recommendations to reflect the circumstances and potential impact involved.
The assessments we carry out
We support clients with the full range of risk assessments needed to demonstrate data protection compliance:
Each assessment is tailored to the processing involved and delivered as clear, actionable documentation you can rely on to evidence compliance.
Privacy Assessment and Risk Prioritisation
Our privacy assessment approach considers the nature of the processing, potential impacts and existing safeguards. We help prioritise risks according to their significance, giving decision-makers a clearer basis for determining where action is required.
Our privacy assessment support can cover new projects, processing activities, systems, suppliers, data sharing and website privacy considerations. A GDPR website audit can also examine forms, cookies, analytics, tracking technologies and privacy information.
Review Websites and Processing Activities
A GDPR website audit can identify privacy considerations across forms, cookies, analytics, tracking technologies and related processes. Where wider processing is involved, we can extend the assessment to relevant systems and operational activities, ensuring recommendations reflect the organisation as a whole.
Identifying and Managing Privacy Risks
Our risk assessment services are suitable for organisations introducing new systems or processing activities, reviewing existing privacy risks or assessing website, supplier and processing-related data protection considerations.
Proportionate Risk Mitigation
We focus on the risks created by your actual processing activities rather than applying a generic assessment. Our GDPR risk assessment support helps organisations understand priorities and implement proportionate mitigation.
From assessments to a risk register
For a Caribbean bank, our team completed several DPIAs on a new data protection platform and helped compile a comprehensive risk register, alongside new consent, retention and privacy notice arrangements.
Read more →GDPR Risk Assessment FAQs
A GDPR risk assessment considers the potential risks created by personal data processing and the safeguards available to address them.
A privacy assessment examines processing activities and their potential impact on individuals, helping organisations identify and manage relevant risks.
A GDPR website audit can review areas such as forms, cookies, analytics, tracking and privacy information, depending on the scope of the review.
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.