First, achieving compliance to privacy requirements (particularly laws and regulations, plus agreements with third parties, plus corporate privacy policies etc.) is burdensome, especially if the requirements are not organized in the most effective way for PII Controllers and PII Processors. Organizations subject to multiple privacy compliance obligations (e.g. from several jurisdictions in which they operate or data subjects live) face additional burdens to reconcile, satisfy and keep watch on all the applicable requirements. A managed approach eases the compliance burden, for example as demonstrated by Annex C of the standard, a single privacy control may satisfy multiple requirements from General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Infocomply platform provides ISO 27701 Privacy Information Management System (PIMS) templates to assist with PIMS decision-making according to clause 5 of the ISO 27701 standard, including evaluating your organization and its context, understanding the needs and expectations of interested parties, determining the scope of the PIMS, identifying leadership roles and responsibilities, establishing and tracking objectives, defining risk criteria, and more.

Second, achieving and maintaining compliance with applicable requirements is a governance and assurance issue. Based on the PIMS (and, potentially, its certification), Privacy or Data Protection Officers can provide the necessary evidence to assure stakeholders such as senior management, owners and the authorities that applicable privacy requirements are satisfied.

Infocomply software provides audit and attestation module to document all the evidences of the compliance, this will help in achieving and maintaining certification.Platform also assists in building awareness of employees and consultants in organizations privacy policy, roles and responsibilities and impacts of not conforming to regulation

Third, PIMS certification can be valuable in communicating privacy compliance to customers and partners. PII Controllers generally demand evidence from PII Processors that the PII Processors’ privacy management system adheres to applicable privacy requirements. A uniform evidence framework based on international standard can greatly simplify such communication of compliance transparency, especially when the evidence is validated by an accredited third-party auditor. This necessity in communication of compliance transparency is also critical for strategic business decisions such as mergers and acquisitions and co-Controllers scenarios involving data sharing agreement. Lastly, PIMS certification can potentially serve to signal trustworthiness to the public.

Infocomply software has feature set to conduct internal audits against the ISO standard in using clause5 and annexA/B controls.Software comes with packaged templates for conducting internal and external audits and document corrective plans