Vendor Privacy Reviews
Structured due diligence on the third parties who process your data on your behalf — before and during the relationship.
A due diligence and ongoing oversight framework for assessing vendors, cloud providers and processors against PDPL's controller-processor obligations, cross-border transfer requirements, and your own risk appetite.
Under PDPL, accountability for personal data does not transfer when you hand it to a vendor. A weak data processing agreement or an unassessed sub-processor is one of the most common sources of real regulatory exposure — and one of the least visible until something goes wrong.
- Build a risk-tiered vendor assessment model calibrated to data sensitivity and processing volume.
- Review and strengthen data processing agreements and cross-border transfer clauses.
- Assess sub-processor chains and cloud data residency against PDPL requirements.
- Establish an ongoing review cadence tied to contract renewal and risk tier.
- —A vendor privacy risk assessment model and scoring criteria
- —Reviewed and strengthened data processing agreement templates
- —A prioritised list of vendor remediation actions
- —An ongoing vendor review cadence integrated into procurement
3–6 weeks for an initial portfolio review; ongoing reviews scoped per vendor tier.
Procurement, Legal, CISOs and Business Owners responsible for vendors and cloud services handling personal data.
We assess vendors the way a regulator would — not by ticking off whether a data processing agreement exists, but whether it actually holds up.
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