GDPR for IT & Software Professionals training course

Our course will not only provide IT and software professionals with foundational knowledge and understanding of GDPR, but build on this to ensure that delegates take away a practical, realistic and balanced appreciation for how GDPR works in practice. Past delegates have told us that before attending this course they did not understand the thinking behind GDPR, what GDPR terminology meant or what the implications of GDPR for IT and software professionals are. While this course includes high level strategic content suitable for legal general counsels, CIOs, CTOs and other senior IT leaders, the focus is on practical advice for IT and software professionals, enabling delegates to appreciate:

1. The global political, economic, social and technological background to GDPR;

2. How GDPR affects Data Protection throughout the world, not only within the EU/EEA;

3. How to approach GDPR in a fully-compliant, yet pragmatic and economical way;

4. Why GDPR restricts International Transfers of Personal Data outside the EU/EEA, except to countries which have an EU Adequacy decision;

5. The nature of the Data Subject rights which GDPR provides both to individuals living in the EU/EEA and to people living worldwide whose Personal Data is processed in the EU/EEA or on behalf on an EU/EEA country;

6. How different Lawful Bases of Processing affect the costs and complexity of IT systems and how to comply with GDPR more efficiently;

7. What transparency means and why it is valuable to organisations and individuals;

8. What “Data Protection by Design and by Default” means and how to do this without significant costs, risks or delays;

9. Why it is important for Data Controllers to obtain written contractual GDPR compliance guarantees from Data Processors before Data Processing;

10. What “Records of Processing” are, why they’re needed and how to maintain them;

11. What “Security of Processing” and “Technical and Organisational Measures” mean and how to implement them “taking into account the state of the art”;

12. How to prepare for a “Data Breach” and minimise impacts;

13. What’s involved in performing a “Data Protection Impact Assessment” (DPIA) and how DPIAs can help with other aspects of GDPR compliance;

14. Who the GDPR regulators are and how they work together;

15. How GDPR evolves through case law and regulatory decisions;

16. How to proactively sustain GDPR compliance in the face of increasing security threats, technological changes and changes in society.