How to do a Privacy Impact Assessment

A PIA stands for privacy impact assessment, which helps organizations identify and take control of risks occurring in structures, projects, or business relationships with clients or employees.

February 18, 2020 | 4 minutes read

Implement Privacy Impact Assessments With CaseGuard

In the final part of our PIA series, we’ll show how to use CaseGuard’s software to obfuscate sensitive information. Examples include PII, PHI, and confidential info, to help you remove identifiers before releasing files.

How to Do a Privacy Impact Assessment

Learn how to do a privacy impact assessment (PIA) at your organization. You’ll learn the six key stages of a PIA process and what questions you’ll need to answer for each step. We’ll also address frequent questions about the PIA process, including when you should do a PIA, how detailed your PIA should be, and whom you might need to talk to during the PIA process.

Why You Should Perform a Privacy Impact Assessment

It’s an unfortunate reality that any organization with sensitive information about the public can be a target for malicious actors. In response to these threats, organizations are performing privacy impact assessments (PIAs). They help organizations explain the impact an information system or project might have on individuals’ privacy and help stakeholders analyze risks. Over today and the next week, we’ll be publishing a series of articles explaining: why you should perform a privacy impact assessment, how to complete a privacy impact assessment, and how you can use redaction software to prevent the spread of confidential or sensitive information online.