With experience across a wide range of sectors, Venable offers a variety of privacy program assessment services, from comprehensive, top-down review to narrowly defined and focused reporting. Our assessments provide a clear understanding of your organization’s strengths, areas for improvement, and marketplace position, so that you can optimize your privacy program for both the near and long term.
With a strong track record of implementing successful privacy programs, our team has a deep understanding of privacy maturity frameworks and models. In fact, many of our privacy team leaders developed the very frameworks that are now globally recognized standards. Regardless of your company’s size or maturity, Venable will partner with you to evaluate and help future-proof your privacy program. Our assessments also account for the growing use of AI and other data-driven tools, helping organizations evaluate program maturity, related privacy risks, governance needs, and legal obligations. We can support business leadership in leveraging your privacy program as part of establishing a strategic data vision and robust governance models.
Developing a well-informed privacy strategy begins with understanding how effective your existing practices are. A comprehensive assessment of your privacy program is the starting point. It gives you a baseline maturity assessment to benchmark your privacy program. Assessment against a standardized framework allows you to document your organization’s progress and gives you a tool to measure your return on privacy investment, year over year. Furthermore, our analysis and insights, targeted findings, tailored recommendations, and detailed roadmap produced by the assessment enable your organization to evaluate the effectiveness of your privacy practices.
When your organization is looking to address a specific requirement, risk, or area of concern, or you just need to evaluate compliance with specific data privacy laws and regulations, Venable is prepared to help you appraise your organization’s current privacy posture with an assessment focused on one or more selected legal requirements. These more narrowly scoped privacy assessments can be conducted individually, based on your specific needs, or done in combination with a more comprehensive privacy program evaluation, and are protected by attorney-client privilege to the extent allowed by law.
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Several U.S. states have now enacted data privacy laws, two of which have added lengthy regulations, creating yet another layer of requirements for your business. Until Congress passes a national, preemptive data privacy law, the market will only become more complex as additional state laws go into effect.
By deploying a rigorous consumer simulation and assessment, Venable can help your organization identify and remediate the most public-facing risk vectors before an attorney general or a regulator does it for you. Through active testing of the externally facing elements on your website(s) and app(s), our Customer View Assessment serves as a “secret shopper” review, intended to improve, or confirm, your compliance readiness. Following this testing, you will receive our assessment results and an actionable list of recommended remediations, protected by attorney-client privilege to the extent allowed by law.
In addition to testing your publicly accessible front-end disclosures and controls, Venable also offers a suite of back-end testing and analysis options that complement our front-end review, along with other complementary assessment offerings. These additional service offerings include:
Many organizations find themselves with additional privacy compliance obligations stemming from new or legacy regulatory and legal actions. Whether from consumer litigation, a federal consent decree, or state attorney general action, these compliance obligations create additional burdens on your organization to stand ready to demonstrate your compliance or be subject to potential sanctions. Venable can assess and document your compliance posture to meet these reporting obligations. These assessments can be performed in combination with our other assessment offerings or as stand-alone services, as needed.
