How to do Data Flow Mapping - Act Now

Speaker: Kirsty Squires

Data flow mapping is an important skill for data protection professionals to develop. It will assist in building a GDPR compliance programme by identifying what personal data an organisation processes, where it comes from, where it goes, and what systems and processes are used to store, transfer or process the data. Data flow mapping is also an essential tool for data protection risk management.

In this practical workshop we will explore data flow mapping in detail. By the end you will understand the key concepts of data flow mapping, the benefits of this work and how to develop and implement a data flow mapping process in your organisation.

This workshop is suitable for Data Protection Officers, Information Governance Leads, Records Managers and anyone with an intertest in gaining a better understanding of information flows within their organisation.

Key Topics

• Some key definitions
• What is a data flow map?
• What are the benefits of data flow mapping?
• The stages of data flow – the data lifecycle
• How data flows through organisations
• Where is your organisation processing personal data?
• Data flow mapping and audit.
• How can data flow mapping support your “compliance”?
• Building a data flow map
• Managing and monitoring flows