Personal Data Protection Officer - Advanced Level Training Course

Day I

I. Selecting a Personal Data Protection Management Model?
1. Prerequisites for an effective data protection system
2. Existing data protection governance models
3. Division of roles and responsibilities in data protection processes.

II. Duties and Responsibilities of the Data Protection Officer (DPO)
1. Mandatory appointment of a Data Protection Officer
2. Optional appointment of a Data Protection Auditor
3. Key knowledge areas for the DPO
4. Sources for acquiring necessary knowledge
5. Qualifications required to act as an Auditor
6. Employment forms for the Supervisor
7. Professional development for the DPO
8. Specific DPO tasks

III. Data Flows
1. Essential DPO knowledge regarding data flows
2. Competencies required for a DPO
3. DPO tasks related to data flows

IV. Preparing and Conducting an Audit
1. Pre-audit preparatory activities
2. Developing an audit plan
3. Appointing and assigning tasks to the audit team
4. Creating working documents
5. Audit checklist creation
6. Case study: The auditing process workflow

V. Assessing the Degree of Compliance
1. Key considerations:
2. Processing security
3. Legal grounds for processing
4. The principle of consent
5. The principle of data minimization
6. The principle of transparency
7. Outsourcing processing activities
8. Transferring data to third countries and international transfers

VI. Audit Reporting
1. Preparing an audit report
2. Key components of an Audit Report
3. Areas requiring special attention
4. Case study
5. Collaboration with employees – building awareness
6. Verifying Controller warranties

VII. Maintaining Compliance
1. Employee awareness – a critical issue
2. Data Protection Policy
3. Essential documentation
4. Continuous monitoring

Day II

VIII. Introduction to Risk Management
1. Organizing the risk assessment process
2. Selected risk assessment practices
3. Essential elements of a DPIA

IX. Examining the Context of Personal Data Processing
1. Contextual research exercises
2. External context
3. Internal context
4. Common mistakes

X. Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)
1. Purpose of execution
2. When is a DPIA obligatory versus optional?
3. Necessary elements of the process
4. Inventory of processing activities
5. Identification of processing resources, particularly those posing high risk

XI. Risk Analysis Exercises
1. Estimating the probability of a hazard occurring
2. Identifying vulnerabilities and existing security measures
3. Assessing effectiveness
4. Estimating consequences
5. Risk identification
6. Determining the risk level
7. Establishing the risk acceptability threshold

XII. Asset Identification and Security Exercises
1. Determining the risk value for the resource
2. Estimating the probability of hazard occurrence
3. Vulnerability identification
4. Identifying existing safeguards
5. Estimating consequences
6. Risk identification
7. Determining the risk acceptability threshold