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Strategic Management is the first high level necessary task to implement proactive privacy management through the following 3 subtasks: - ANS:->>> - (1) Define Privacy Vision and Privacy Mission Statement\n\n(2) Develop Privacy Strategy\n\n(3) Structure Privacy Team Strategic management of privacy starts by creating or updating the organization vision and mission statement based on privacy best practices that should include: - ANS:->>> - (1) Develop vision and mission statement objectives 00 (3) Identify legal and regulatory compliance challenges (4) Identify organization personal information legal requirements Define Privacy Program Scope - ANS:->>> - 1) Identify & Understand Legal and Regulatory Compliance Challenges Identify the Data Impacted Understand Global Perspective Customize Approach Be Aware of Laws, Regulations, Processes, Procedures Monitor Legal Compliance Factors
Types of Protection Models (4) - ANS:->>> - i) Sectoral (US)\nii) Comprehensive (EU, Canada, Russia)\niii) Co-Regulatory (Australia)\niv) Self Regulated (US, Japan, Singapore) Questions to Ask When Determining Privacy Requirements (Legal) - **ANS:-
- -** Who collects, uses, maintians Personal Information\n- What are the types of Personal Information\n- What are the legal requirements for the PI\n- Where is the PI stored\n- How is the PI collected\n- Why is the PI collected Steps to Developing a Privacy Strategy (5) - ANS:->>> - i) ID Stakeholders and Internal Partnerships\nii) Leverage Key Functions\niii) Create a Process for Interfacing\niv) Develop a Data Governance Strategy\nv) *Conduct a Privacy Workshop Data Governance Models (3) - ANS:->>> - i) Centralized\nii) Local/Decentralized\niii) Hybrid What is a Privacy Program Framework? - ANS:->>> - Implementation roadmap that provides structure or checklists to guide privacy professionals through management and prompts for details to determine privacy relevant decisions. Popular Frameworks (6) - ANS:->>> - APEC Privacy - regional data
Privacy Assessment Approach (Key Areas) - ANS:->>> - i) Internal Audit & Risk Management\nii) Information Tech & IT Operations/Development\niii) Information Security\niv) HR/Ethics\nv) Legal/Contracts\nvi) Process/3rd Party Vendors\nvii) Marketing/Sales\nviii) Government Relations\nix) Accounting/Finance 11 Principles of the Data Life Cycle Management Model - ANS:->>> - i) Enterprise Objectives\nii) Minimalism\niii) Simplicity of Procedures & Training\niv) Adequacy of Infrastructure\nv) Information Security\nvi) Authenticity and Accuracy of Records\nvii) Retrievabiliyt\nviii) Distribution Controls\nix) Auditability\nx) Consistency of Policies\nxi) Enforcement What is CIA & AA - ANS:->>> - Confidentiality\nIntegrity\nAvailability\n\nAccountability\ nAssurance What is the difference between positive & negative controls? - ANS:->>> - Positive - Enable privacy and business practices (win/win)\n\nNegative - Enable privacy but constrain business (win/lose) What are the 3 high level security roles? - ANS:->>> - i) Executive\nii) Functional\niii) Corollary What are the 7 foundation principles of Privacy by Design? - ANS:->>> - i)
Proactive not Reactive; Preventative not Remedial\nii) Privacy as Default Setting\niii) Privacy Embedded into Design\niv) Full Funcationality\nv) End to End Security (Throughout Lifecyle)\nvi) Visibility and Transparency\nvii) Respect for User Privacy 3 keys to Sustainment? - ANS:->>> - i) Monitor\nii) Audit\niii) Communicate 4 keys to Response? - ANS:->>> - i) Information Requests\nii) Legal Compliance\niii) Incident Response Planning\niv) Incident Handling Proactive privacy management is accomplished through three tasks - **ANS:-
-** 1) Define your organization's privacy vision and privacy mission statements 2) Develop privacy strategy 3) Structure your privacy team This is needed to structure responsibilities with business goals - ANS:->>> - Strategic Management Strategic Management model - ANS:->>> - Identifies alignment to organizational vision and defines the privacy leaders for an organization, along with the resources necessary to execute the vision. Privacy professional - ANS:->>> - Member of the privacy team who may be
knowledge on privacy approaches\n\n\n(2) E valuate the intended objective\n\n\n(3) Gain executive sponsor approval for this Privacy Vision How do you establish a Privacy Program? - ANS:->>> - (1) Define program scope and charter\n\n\n(2) Identify the sources, types, and uses of Personal Information (PI) within the org. and the applicable laws\n\n\n(3) Develop a Privacy Strategy Elements of a Privacy Strategy? - ANS:->>> - (1) Business Alignment\n\n\n(2) Develop a data governance strategy for personal information (collection, authorized use, access, and destruction)\n\n\n(3) Plan inquiry/complaint handing procedures (customers, regulators, etc.) Structuring the Privacy Team involves: - ANS:->>> - (1) Identifying and Establishing the appropriate Governance Model for your organization (usually based on size)\n\n\n(2) Responsibilities and reporting structure for Governance Model and Organization\n\n\ n(3) Designate a point of contact for Privacy Issues\n\n\n(4) Establish/endorse the measurement of professional competency Types of Governance Models? - ANS:->>> - (1) Centralized\n\n\n(2) Distributed\n\n\n(3) Hybrid How do you develop the Privacy Program Framework? - ANS:->>> - (1)
Develop organizational privacy policies, standards, and/or guidelines\n\n\n(2) Define Privacy Program activities Privacy Program activities usually consist of: - ANS:->>> - (1) Education and awareness\n\ n\n(2) Monitoring and responding to the regulatory environment\n\n\n(3) Internal policy compliance\n\n\n(4) Data inventories, data flows, and classification\n\n\n(5) Risk assessment (Privacy Impact Assessments, etc.)\n\n\n(6) Incident response and process, including jurisdictional regulations\n\n\n(7) Remediation\n\n\n(8) Program assurance, including audits Implementing the Privacy Policy Framework consists of: - ANS:->>> - (1) Communicating the Framework to internal and external stakeholders\n\n\n(2) Ensuring continuous alignment to applicable laws and regulations to support the development of an organizational Privacy Program Framework Ensuring continuous alignment to applicable laws and regulations to support the development of an organizational Privacy Program Framework consists of: - ANS:->>> - (1) Understanding applicable national laws and regulations\n\n\n(2) Understanding applicable local laws and regulations\n\n\n(3) Understanding the penalties for noncompliance \n\n\n(4) Understanding scope and authority of
privacy function\n\n\n(7) Maintain the ability to track multiple jurisdictions for changes in privacy law\n\n\n(8) Understand international data sharing arrangements and agreements Privacy Program Framework is: - ANS:->>> - An implementation road-map that provides the structure or checklists (document privacy procedures and processes) to guide the privacy professional through privacy management and prompts them for the details to determine all privacy-relevant decisions for the organization. Privacy Framework benefits include: - ANS:->>> - Reduce risk; avoid incident of data loss; sustain organization market value and reputation and provide measurement in compliance to laws, regulations, and standards. Developing organizational privacy policies, standards, and/or guidelines involves: - ANS:->>> - (1) Assessment of Business Case\n\n\n(2) Gap Analysis\n\n\n(3) Review and monitor privacy program\n\n\n(4) Communicate the framework Ten foundational elements for privacy Business Case Development are: - ANS:-
- (1) Organizational privacy office guidance\n\n\n(2) Define privacy\n\n\n(3) Laws and Regulations\n\n\n(4) Technical Controls\n\n\n(5) External Privacy Organizations\n\n\n(6) Industry Frameworks\n\n\n(7)
Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs)\n\n\n(8) Information technology cutting-edge or innovation solutions\n\n\n(9) Education and Awareness\n\n\n(10) Program assurance or the governance structure Organizational privacy office guidance: - ANS:->>> - If developed, offers the best staring point. This should be the first step, regardless of the program maturity. Define Privacy: - ANS:->>> - As related to your program or organization. Use all available resources to determine the correct and appropriate definition of privacy for your org. Laws and regulations - ANS:->>> - Provide the MANDATORY GOVERNMENT POLICY and guidance based on the organization's location and industry. Technical Controls: - ANS:->>> - Provide the assurances necessary to achieve the goals of physical and data security. External Privacy Organizations: - ANS:->>> - Serve as guardians or protectors against misuse, loss, or illegal practices. Industry frameworks: - ANS:->>> - Provide taxonomies or privacy categorization guidelines that are not law or regulation based. (Eg. ISO,
Information technology cutting-edge or innovation solutions: - ANS:->>> - Involve the use of newer or unregulated technology, such as social networking and the new Internet web cookie policy for eGov 2. Education and Awareness: - ANS:->>> - Provide methods to inform the employee of the important aspects of privacy and the basic protections a non- privacy professional should know. Program assurance or the governance structure: - ANS:->>> - Mandate operational safeguards that include auditing. Performing a gap analysis will... - ANS:->>> - determine the capability of current privacy management to support each of the business and technical requirements Performance Measurement - ANS:->>> - The process of formulating or selecting metrics to evaluate implementation, efficiency or effectiveness; gathering data and producing quantifiable output that describes performance. Metrics - ANS:->>> - Tools that facilitate decision making and accountability through collection, analysis, and reporting of data. They must be measurable, meaningful, clearly defined (with boundaries), indicate progress, and ANS:->>> a specific question to be valuable and practical.
Five-Step Metric Life Cycle: - ANS:->>> - (1) Identify (metric audience)\n\n\n(2) Define (the metric owner)\n\n\n(3) Select (the specific privacy metric)\n\n\n(4) Collect (the data for the metric - Who, what, how, when, etc)\n\n\n(5) Analyze (statistical analysis, e.g., trend) Metric - Identification - ANS:->>> - Identification of the intended audience: WHO will use the data? Metric - Definition - ANS:->>> - Definition of data sources: WHO is the data owner and HOW is that data accessed? Metric - Selection - ANS:->>> - Selection of privacy metrics: WHAT metrics to use based on the audience, reporting resources, and final selection of the best metric? Metric - Collection - ANS:->>> - Collection and refinement of systems/application collection points: WHERE will the data come from to finalize the metric collection report? WHEN will the data be collected? WHY is tat data important? Metric - Analyze - ANS:->>> - Analyze the data/metric to provide value to the organization and provide a feedback quality mechanism
Metric - Primary Audience - ANS:->>> - Includes: \n\n\nLegal and privacy officers\nSenior leadership; chief information officer\nChief security officer\nProgram managers\ nInformation system owner\nInformation security officer Metric - Secondary audience - ANS:->>> - Chief Financial officer\nTraining organizations\ nHuman resources\nInspectors general\nHIPAA security officials Metric - Tertiary audience - ANS:->>> - External watch dog groups\nSponsors
nStockholders Metric - Owner - ANS:->>> - Process owner, champion, advocate and evangelist responsible for management of the metric throughout the metric life cycle Metric - Sigma Six - ANS:->>> - Metric owner must:\n\n\n(1) Know what is critical about the metric. Why the output is important and understand how this metric fits into the business objectives.\n\n\n(2) Monitor process performance with the metric. Predictors of performance and monitoring data compiled by other metric owners, processes, or dependencies (operation, strategic, or tactical). \n\n\n(3) Make sure the process documentation is up to date.\n\n\n(4) Perform regular reviews. Determine if the metric is still required, capable to meet goals, and provides value to the organization.\n\n\n(5) Make sure that any
improvements are incorporated and maintained in the process.\n\n\ n(6) Advocate the metric to customers, partners, and others.\n\n\n(7) Maintain training, documentation, and materials. Attributes of an effective Metric - ANS:->>> - Clear and concise metric that defines and measures progress toward a business objective or goal without overburdening the reader Metric taxonomies; provide the following categories: - ANS:->>> - (1) Objective / Subjective\n\n\n(2) Quantitative / Qualitative\n\n\n(3) Information Technology Metrics / Quantitative Measurement\n\n\n(4) Static / Dynamic\n\n\n(5) Absolute / Relative\n\n\ n(6) Direct / Indirect Metrics - Improper - ANS:->>> - (1) Faulty Assumptions\n\n\n(2) Selective Use\n\n\n(3) The Well-chosen Average\n\n\n(4) Semi- attachment\n\n\n(5) Biased Sample\n\n\n(6) Intentional Deceit\n\n\n(7) Massaging the Numbers\n\n\n(8) Over-generalization
of Metrics a Privacy Professional should select? - ANS:->>> - 3 - 5
Examples of Compliance Metrics - ANS:->>> - (1) Collection (notice)\n(2) Responses to data subject inquiries\n(3) Use\n(4) Retention\n(5) Disclosure to
Business Resiliency Metrics - ANS:->>> - ability to rapidly adapt and respond to business disruptions Privacy Operational Life Cycle (POLC): Assess - ANS:->>> - (1) Document current baseline of your privacy\n(2) Processors and third party vendor assessment\n(3) Physical Assessments\n(4) Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures\n(5) Conduct analysis and assessments, as needed or as appropriate POLC Assess: 1. Document current baseline of your privacy - ANS:->>> - (a) Education and awareness\n(b) Monitoring and responding to regulatory environment\n(c) Internal policy compliance\n(d) Data, systems and process assessment\n(e) Risk assessment\ n(f) Incident response\n(g) Remediation\n(h) Determine desired state and perform gap analysis against an accepted standard or law\n(i) Program assurance, including audits POLC/Assess/1.d. Data, systems, and process assessment involves: - ANS:->>>
- (1) Map data inventories, flows, and classification\n(2) Create "record of authority" of systems processing personal information within organization\n(3) Map and document data flow in systems and applications\n(4) Analyze and classify types and uses of data POLC/Assess/Processors and 3rd party vendor assessment includes: - ANS:-
- (1) Evaluate processors and third party vendors, in-sourcing and
outsourcing privacy risks\ n (a) Privacy and information security policies\n (b) Access controls\n (c) Where personal information is being held\n (e) Who has access to personal information\n\n\ n(2) Understand and leverage the different types of relationships.\n (a) Internal audit\n (b) Information security\n (c) Physical security\n (d) Data protection authority\n\n\n(3) Risk Assessment\n\n\n(4) Contractual Requirements\n\n\n(5) Ongoing monitoring and auditing POLC / Assess / Risk assessment: - ANS:->>> - (1) Type of data being outsourced\n(2) Location of data\n(3) Implication of cloud computing strategy\n(4) Legal compliance\n(5) Records retention\n(6) Contractual requirements (incident response, etc.)\n(7) Establish minimum standards for safeguarding information POLC / Protect - ANS:->>> - (1) Data life cycle (creation to deletion)\n\n\n(2) Information Security Practices\n\n\n(3) Privacy by Design POLC / Sustain - ANS:->>> - (1) Measure\n\n\n(2) Align\n\n\n(3) Audit\n\n\n(4) Communicate\n\n\n(5) Monitor POLC / Sustain / Measure - ANS:->>> - (1) Quantify the costs of technical controls\n\n\ n(2) Manage data retention with respect to the organization's
