Certified EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) Foundation and Practitioner Overview

Certified EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) Foundation and Practitioner

Module 1: Introduction to the GDPR 

  • GDPR in a Nutshell
  • Generate Customer Confidence
  • Focus of GDPR
  • What is Personal Information?
  • Who has PII?
  • Lawful Processing of Personal Data

Module 2: Binding Corporate Rules 

  • Introduction
  • Scope
  • UK ICO’s View of the Scope
  • Processing GDPR Definition
  • Who Processes PII?
  • What is Special Data?
  • Legal Framework
  • Timeline and Derogations
  • Some Key Areas for Derogation
  • Data Breaches/Personal Data Breach
  • Consequences of Failure
  • Governance Framework

Module 3: GDPR Terminology and Techniques 

  • Key Roles
  • Data Set
  • Subject Access Request (SAR)
  • Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA)
  • What Triggers a Data Protection Impact Assessment?
  • DPIA is Not Required
  • Processes to be Considered for a DPIA
  • Responsibilities
  • DPIA Decision Path
  • DPIA Content
  • How Do I Conduct a DPIA?
  • Signing Off the DPIA
  • Mitigating Risks Identified by the DPIA
  • Privacy by Design and Default
  • External Transfers
  • Profiling
  • Pseudonymization
  • Principles, User Rights, and Obligations
  • One Stop Shop

Module 4: Structure of the Regulation 

  • Parts of the GDPR
  • Format of the Articles
  • Articles

Module 5: Principles and Rights 

  • Introduction
  • Legality Principle
  • How the Permissions Work Together?
  • Lawfulness of Processing Conditions
  • Lawfulness for Special Categories of Data
  • Criminal Offence Data
  • Consent
  • Transparency Principle
  • Fairness Principle
  • Rights of Data Subjects
  • Purpose Limitation Principle
  • Minimization Principle
  • Accuracy Principle
  • Storage Limitation Principle
  • Integrity and Confidentiality Principle
  • Accountability Principle

Module 6: Demonstrating Compliance 

  • Demonstrating Compliance with the GDPR
  • Impact of Compliance Failure
  • Administrative Fines
  • What Influences the Size of an Administrative Fine?
  • Joint Controllers
  • Processor Liability Under GDPR
  • Demonstrating Compliance
  • Protecting PII is Only Half the Job
  • What must be Recorded?
  • Additional Ways of Demonstrating Compliance
  • Demonstrating a Robust Process
  • PIMS (Personal Information Management System)
  • Cyber Essentials
  • ISO 27017 Code of Practice for Information Security Controls
  • Risk Management

Module 7: Incident Response and Data Breaches 

  • What is a Personal Data Breach?
  • Notification Obligations
  • What Breaches Do I Need to Notify the Relevant Supervisory Authority About?
  • What Information Must Be Provided to the SA?
  • How do I Report a Breach to the SA?
  • Notifying Data Subjects
  • What Should I do to Prepare for Breach Reporting?
  • Updating Policies and Procedures
  • Breach Reporting and Responses
  • Ways to Minimize the Breach Impact

Module 8: Understanding the Principle Roles

  • What does the GDPR Makes Businesses Responsible For?
  • Difference Between a Data Controller and a Data Processor
  • How the Roles Split?
  • Controllers and Processors
  • Main Obligations of Data Controllers
  • Demonstrate Compliance
  • Joint Controllers and EU Representative
  • Controller-Processor Contract
  • Maintain Records and Keeping Records for Small Businesses
  • Cooperation with Supervisory Authorities
  • Keeping PII Secure
  • Data Breach Transparency
  • Role of the Data Processor
  • Controller-Processor Contract
  • Main Obligations of the Processor
  • Perform Only the Data Processing Defined by the Data Controller
  • Update the Data Controller
  • Sub-Process or Appointment
  • Keep PII Confidential
  • Maintaining Records
  • Cooperate with Supervisory Authorities
  • Security
  • Appoint a DPO – If Necessary
  • Transferring Data Outside the EU

Module 9: Role of the DPO

  • Role of a Data Protection Officer
  • Involvement of the DPO
  • Main Responsibilities of the DPO
  • Working Environment for the DPO
  • Must We Have A DPO?
  • Public Body
  • What does Large Scale mean?
  • Systematic Monitoring
  • Who Can Perform the Role of DPO?
  • Skills Required
  • Monitoring Compliance
  • Training and Awareness
  • Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs)
  • Risk-Based Approach
  • Business Support for the DPO
  • DPO Independence
  • DPO – Conflict of Interest

Module 10: UK Implementation

  • Key Differences Between the Data Protection Act and the GDPR
  • Highlights from the Data Protection Bill
  • Definition of Controller
  • Health, Social Work, Education, and Child Abuse
  • Age of Consent
  • Exemptions for Freedom of Expression
  • Research and Statistics
  • Archiving in the Public Interest

Module 11: Key Features

  • Specific Permission
  • Privacy by Design
  • Data Portability
  • Right to be Forgotten
  • Definitive Consent
  • Information in Clear Readable Language
  • Limits on the Use of Profiling
  • Everyone Follows the Same Law
  • Adopting Techniques

Module 12: Subject Access Requests and How to Deal with them?

  • Subject Access Requests (SAR)
  • Dealing with SAR
  • Recognize the Request
  • Understand the Time Limitations
  • Dealing with Fees and Excessive Requests
  • Identify, Search, and Gather the Requested Data
  • Learn about What Information to Withhold
  • Developing and Sending a Response

Module 13: Data Subject Rights

  • Must I Always Obey a Right?
  • Rights and Third Parties
  • Requests Made on Behalf of Other Data Subjects
  • Guidelines for Children's Maturity
  • Responding to a Rights Request
  • What is a Month?
  • Rights Request Flow Chart
  • Right to be Informed
  • When Should Information Be Provided?
  • Best Practice Guidance
  • Right of Access
  • Right to Rectification
  • Right to Erasure
  • When can I Refuse to Comply with a Request for Erasure?
  • Erasing Children's Data
  • Right to Restrict Processing
  • When Processing Should be Restricted?
  • Protecting PII
  • Other Issues about Restricting Processing
  • Right to Data Portability
  • Right to Object
  • Complying with the Right to Object
  • Rejecting the Right to Object
  • Processing for Direct Marketing Purposes
  • Processing for Research Purposes
  • Rights Related to Automated Decision Making and Profiling
  • When does the Right not apply?

Module 14: Subject Access Requests

  • Provenance
  • Overview: SARs
  • SAR is an Activity, Not a Title
  • How can a SAR be Submitted?
  • What Information Should the Response to a SAR Contain?
  • Additional Information
  • Replying to a SAR
  • Confirming a Data Subject’s Identity
  • Scope
  • Electronic Records
  • Non-Electronic Records
  • SARs Involving 3rd Party PII
  • Fees
  • Refusing a Subject Access Request
  • Access Requests from Employees
  • Credit Reference Agencies
  • Best Practice for SARs

Module 15: Lawful Processing

  • Lawful Processing: A Reminder
  • User Rights Change Depending on the Justification
  • Lawfulness of Processing Conditions
  • Lawfulness for Special Categories of Data
  • UK ICO Tool
  • Consent
  • Key Points About Consent
  • Affirmative Action and Explicit Consent
  • Introduction of Affirmative Action
  • What is Not Affirmative Action?
  • Examples of Affirmative Action from the ICO
  • Introduction of Explicit Consent
  • Explicit Statement
  • Obtaining Explicit Consent
  • ICOs View of a Poor Form of Explicit Consent
  • Obtaining Consent for Scientific Research Purposes
  • Getting Consent
  • What Should Go into the Consent Request?
  • Consent Granularity
  • Right to Withdraw Consent
  • Children
  • Consent Records
  • ICOs Examples of Record Keeping
  • Key Points When Establishing Consent
  • Legitimate Interests
  • Getting the Balance Right
  • Consent or Legitimate Interest?
  • What Lawful Basis Can be Used for Processing Marketing PII?

Module 16: Third Country Data

  • Cross Border Transfers
  • Transfer Mechanisms
  • Derogations
  • Adequacy
  • Adequate Ways to Safeguard Transfers of PII
  • Consent
  • One-Off or Infrequent Transfers
  • Who is Responsible?
  • Transferring PII Between EEA Members
  • Adequate Countries Outside of the EEA
  • Binding Corporate Rules (BCR)
  • What a BCR Must Cover?
  • Authorization for BCRs
  • EU-US Privacy Shield
  • Privacy Shield Overview
  • Privacy Shield: Mechanics
  • Model Clauses
  • Public Authority Agreements

Module 17: Introduction to Protecting Personal Data

  • Need to Secure
  • What is Appropriate?
  • Protecting PII – 3 Key Areas
  • Coverage
  • Defensive Design
  • Single Point of Failure (SPOF)
  • Incident Response
  • Data Breach Reporting Requirements
  • Incident Response Team

Module 18: Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA)

  • Introduction
  • What Triggers a Data Protection Impact Assessment?
  • Cases Where DPIA is Not Required
  • Benefits of DPIA
  • Processes to be Considered for a DPIA
  • Responsibilities
  • DPIA Decision Path
  • DPIA Content
  • How Do I Conduct A DPIA?
  • Signing Off the DPIA
  • Mitigating Risks Identified by the DPIA

Module 19: Need Want Drop

  • Overview
  • Need-Want-Drop: Concept Diagram
  • Need-Want-Drop: Categorizing Data
  • Need/Want/Drop Methodology

Module 20: Dealing with Third Parties and Data in the Cloud

  • What is Cloud Computing?
  • Myths of Cloud
  • Cloud Challenges
  • Controller-Processor Contract
  • Checklist
  • Data Controller - Summary

Module 21: Practical Implications: GDPR

  • Brexit and its Impact on the GDPR
  • Adequacy
  • What does this Mean in Practice?
  • EU and UK Representatives
  • Exemption Rule
  • One-Stop Shop

Module 22: Legal Requirements of the GDPR

  • Lawful, Fair, and Transparent Processing
  • Limitation of Purpose, Data and Storage
  • Data Subject Rights
  • Consent
  • Personal Data Breaches
  • Privacy by Design
  • Data Protection Impact Assessment
  • Data Transfers
  • Data Protection Officer
  • Awareness and Training

Module 23: Privacy Principles in GDPR

  • Lawfulness, Fairness, and Transparency
  • Purpose Limitation
  • Data Minimization
  • Accuracy
  • Storage Limitation
  • Integrity and Confidentiality

Module 24: Common Data Security Failures, Consequences, and Lessons to be Learnt

  • Common Data Security Failures
  • Consequences
  • Fines Relating to Data Breaches
  • Litigation from Customers Relating to Data Breaches
  • Directors, Officers, and Professional Advisors
  • Reputational Damage
  • Lesson Learned
  • Knowing When and How to Communicate with Affected Individuals is Not Easy
  • GDPR is Important, as are Other Legal Frameworks

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Who should attend this Certified EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) Foundation and Practitioner Course?

The Certified EU GDPR Foundation and Practitioner Course in the United States aims to educate professionals about the details of the GDPR and how to implement and comply with its provisions. This GDPR Training Course can be beneficial for the professionals, including:

  • Data Protection Officers
  • Data Privacy Lawyers
  • IT Security Professionals
  • Compliance Officers
  • Privacy Professionals
  • Legal Professionals
  • Risk and Compliance Managers
  • IT Consultants

Prerequisites of the Certified EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) Foundation and Practitioner Course

There are no formal prerequisites required for the Certified EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) Foundation and Practitioner Course.

Certified EU General Data Protection Regulation Foundation and Practitioner Course Overview

This Data Protection is paramount, and the Certified EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Foundation and Practitioner Course in the United States provides a comprehensive understanding of the GDPR, which is a critical regulation to be aware of when organizations work across countries. With an increasing focus on privacy and data security, mastering GDPR is essential for professionals dealing with personal data.

Proficiency in GDPR Training in the United States is vital for professionals such as Data Protection Officers, Compliance Officers, and IT professionals. The course equips individuals with the knowledge and skills needed to ensure compliance with GDPR requirements, fostering a data protection culture within organizations.

This intensive 4-day GDPR Training in the United States delegates with a deep understanding of the GDPR framework. It covers both foundational principles and practical applications, enabling delegates to navigate the complexities of GDPR compliance. The course enhances practical skills, ensuring delegates can effectively implement and manage data protection measures within their organizations.

Course Objectives:

  • To comprehend the key principles and concepts of the GDPR
  • To understand the rights of data subjects and the obligations of data controllers and processors
  • To gain practical insights into conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs)
  • To develop proficiency in managing data breaches and incident responses
  • To acquire the skills needed for effective GDPR compliance audits
  • To establish comprehensive data protection policies and procedures
  • To grasp the intricacies of international data transfers and third-party relationships

After completing this GDPR Course in the United States, delegates will receive a Certified EU GDPR Foundation and Practitioner Certification. This GDPR Training Certification enhances career prospects and demonstrates a commitment to the highest data privacy and security standards.

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What’s included in this Certified EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) Foundation and Practitioner Course?

  • Certified EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) Foundation and Practitioner Examination
  • World-Class Training Sessions from Experienced Instructors
  • Certified EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) Foundation and Practitioner Certificates
  • Digital Delegate Pack

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EU GDPR Foundation Exam Information

To achieve the Certified EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) Foundation, candidates will need to sit for an examination. The exam format is as follows: 

  • Question Type: Multiple Choice 
  • Total Questions: 45 
  • Total Marks: 45 Marks 
  • Pass Mark: 65%, or 29/45 Marks 
  • Duration: 60 Minutes 
  • Open Book/ Closed Book: Closed Book

EU GDPR Practitioner Exam Information

To achieve the Certified EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) Practitioner, candidates will need to sit for an examination. The exam format is as follows: 

  • Question Type: Multiple Choice 
  • Total Questions: 30 
  • Total Marks: 30 Marks 
  • Pass Mark: 57%, or 17/30 Marks 
  • Duration: 90 Minutes
  • Open Book/ Closed Book: Closed Book

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