Data Protection Training

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Most data breaches don’t come from hackers. They come from someone clicking the wrong link, emailing the wrong person or leaving the wrong file open. Training is how you bring that risk down.

Under the Data Protection Act 2018, you’re expected to have the right measures in place to protect personal data, and that includes training the people who handle it. It isn’t a nice-to-have. Staff who understand what the law asks of them, and why, are far less likely to be the reason something goes wrong.

We run training built around your business, not a generic slide deck. That means working from your own policies and procedures, and using real cases your team will recognise, with the chance to put questions directly to a lawyer.

Good training helps you:

  • Strengthen the policies and procedures you already have
  • Protect your staff by making clear what’s expected of them, both by the business and by the law
  • Spot risks and deal with them before they turn into something bigger
  • Make the content stick, by tying it to the work your team actually does

We also run shorter refresher and awareness sessions, so it doesn’t all rest on one session that people have forgotten by the following month.

The strongest policy still fails if your team doesn’t know it’s there.

Head of DepartmentDiane PearcePartner

We work with businesses at different moments: one rolling out new data protection policies to its staff, or one that’s had a near miss and wants to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Whichever is closer to yours, here’s where our data protection work applies.

If you’re not sure which of these fits your situation, call us, and we’ll point you in the right direction.