Privacy Maturity Assessment | Focal Point Data Risk

Measuring Your Privacy Maturity

Data privacy is more than just compliance. Today, privacy is about designing, operating, and using technology in a way that secures personal data, meets regulatory requirements, builds consumer trust, and supports business needs. But accomplishing these goals is a significant challenge. Our Privacy Maturity Assessment is designed to benchmark your policies, processes, and technologies against leading privacy standards and provide you with a clear picture of your strengths, risks, and opportunities for improvement.

Our Approach

Our assessment is built on the NIST Privacy Framework, Generally Accepted Privacy Principles (GAPP), and HIPAA Breach Notification requirements and supported by Focal Point’s collective data privacy, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance experience.

Phase 1

During Phase 1, the Focal Point team collaborates with you to establish the objectives and scope for this engagement, as well as communication methods and a cadence for status reporting. Following this initial step, we coordinate document and interview requests with your team.

Clear engagement objectives
Established communication methods
Document and interview requests

Phase 2

Our team holds both on-site and remote discovery sessions with key stakeholders and subject matter experts within your organization. Following this step, our team builds a current state gap analysis of your policies, procedures, and technologies against industry standards.

Using our assessment model, we evaluate each domain of your privacy program, providing you with a GAPP/NIST maturity score in each area. As a result of this analysis, we are able to identify process inefficiencies and areas for improvement.

Benchmarking of the current posture of your privacy program
Identified process inefficiencies and areas for improvement
Improved decision-making around the level of privacy risk associated with business operations

Phase 3

In the final phase of this assessment, our team communicates the findings of our analysis to your leadership team, helping you gain executive buy-in for the most immediate risks to your organization.

During this phase, we establish target privacy program maturity goals, provide future state recommendations for improvement, and deliver a roadmap for short-term and long-term privacy maturity.

Alignment between privacy priorities and enterprise objectives
Improved resource allocation
More investment in future projects
Increased consumer trust

Assessment Focus Areas

Privacy Governance	Third-Party Risk Management	Training and Awareness
Policies and Procedures	Cybersecurity Controls	Data Classification
Data Management and Use	Ongoing Compliance Management	Risk Management
Data Retention	Consent and Authorization	Breach Notification and Response

Different from the Rest

At Focal Point, we take a different approach to managing privacy risk.

Actionable Deliverables

Our privacy maturity assessment doesn't just point out your weaknesses and the urgent need for change. It provides clear, practical guidance for addressing key risks and improving your overall risk posture.

Ongoing Support

After providing our clients with this assessment, we often stay onboard to help them implement our recommendations and mature their programs. We work with you to help you execute your roadmap.

End-to-End Services

Focal Point provides you with end-to-end support. We have experts in cybersecurity, compliance, IAM, and cyber workforce training to help you improve all areas of your program.