Privacy Impact Assessment

The privacy impact assessment is a tool used by the Department of Homeland Security to recognize and prevent privacy risks.

February 26, 2020 | 5 minutes read

CaseGuard for Government

Engineered for some of the most security sensitive organizations, CaseGuard’s desktop-based application offers government customers easy-to-use tools to redact audio, video, images, and PDFs. Learn how CaseGuard can streamline your government agency’s redaction workflow.

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.

February 13, 2020 | 8 minutes read

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.

February 07, 2020 | 3 minutes read

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.