General Data Protection Regulation Course (GDPR) (H1060)
This General Data Protection Regulation Course equips professionals with the knowledge to safeguard personal information. You will learn to respond to data incidents, conduct impact assessments, and maintain proper documentation to ensure your organization's compliance and build a robust data security culture.
Table of Contents
- About the Course
- Who Should Attend
- Key Learning Objectives
- Course Curriculum
- Meet the Trainer
- FAQs – Frequently Asked Questions
- Other Upcoming Courses
- Fees & Registration Details
- Registration Form
About the Course
As the regulatory landscape continues to evolve, organizations must ensure that employees not only understand GDPR but also know how to respond to data incidents, conduct impact assessments, and maintain proper documentation to safeguard personal information. This training fosters a proactive mindset, helping participants align with both legal obligations and best practices in information security and data governance.
This seminar addresses the urgent need for awareness, knowledge, and operational competence in personal data protection. It equips professionals across departments with the tools to interpret GDPR principles, apply them effectively in their daily operations, and create a culture of compliance and ethical data handling.
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*This training program is designed to support continuing professional development (CPD). Participants are encouraged to verify with their professional body or regulatory authority whether the training meets their individual or institutional CPD requirements
Timetable
Who Should Attend
This course on GDPR is suitable for:
- Auditing Department
- Compliance and Legal department
- Risk Management department
- Operations
- Management and Executive teams
- Human Resources
- Other company stakeholders without extensive background and experience
Key Learning Objectives
Following the completion of the course on GDPR, the attendees will be able to:
- Be able to build a security culture
- Be able to comply with regulations and standards to ensure compliance and protection against legal liabilities
- Be able to reduce Human Error
- Efficiency and Effectiveness
- Safeguarding personal information
- Create a culture of protection of sensitive information
- Create networking and collaboration with the authorities
- Create ethics and integrity
Course Curriculum
- Course Introduction – Discussion Topics
- Outline course objectives
- Icebreaker
- Overview of the GDPR Regulation
- Training course objectives and structure
- General Data Protection Regulation
- Core consideration for GDPR
- Overview of the GDPR landscape
- Introduction, definitions, principles, legal terms, rights of data subjects, obligations of data controllers and processors, under GDPR
- Case studies, workplaces, group discussions
- Designation of the DPO
- Analysis of GDPR compliance program
- Relationship with the top management
- Roles and responsibilities, criteria of DPO
- DPO’s relationship with stakeholders and regulatory authorities
- Analysis of GDPR requirements, gap analysis, and assessment of current status
- Designing a comprehensive GDPR compliance program
- Developing processes, procedures, and documentation framework
- Data protection impact assessment and evaluation
- Documentation management
- Operational aspects of DPO role
- Conducting data protection impact assessment (DPIA)
- Handling data, breach incidents, detection, notification, and response
- Facilitating data training, awareness, and monitoring
- Collaboration with internal departments and external partners
Incident management and personal data breaches
- Monitoring and measuring compliance and data protection internal audit
- Establishing KPIs for GDPR compliance
- Implementing monitoring and audit mechanisms
- Conducting regular assessments and reviews, handling non-compliance issues, and remediation measures
- Implementing a culture of continual improvement and best practices over time
- Conclusion
- Q&A
Meet the Trainer
Fees & Registration Details
FAQs – Frequently Asked Questions
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an EU regulation that governs the collection, processing, and storage of personal data. It is essential for businesses to comply to avoid penalties and build customer trust.
This course is ideal for professionals in Legal, Compliance, HR, Risk, Operations, and Management, as well as company stakeholders without prior data protection experience who need to understand and apply GDPR requirements.
Key topics include GDPR principles, data subject rights, roles of controllers and processors, DPO responsibilities, impact assessments (DPIA), incident handling, internal audits, and best practices for ongoing compliance.
You will learn to implement GDPR frameworks, conduct data protection impact assessments, manage breach incidents, align with legal obligations, and create internal monitoring mechanisms and compliance KPIs.
