Data Protection & Compliance Officer Advisory Services
Specialized advisory service providing organizations with expert Data Protection Officer (DPO) and/or Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) capabilities without the overhead of full-time executive hires. Our experienced professionals serve as your designated privacy and compliance leadership, fulfilling regulatory requirements while implementing effective data protection and compliance programs tailored to your organization's specific needs.
In scope
- Data protection program management
- Privacy impact assessment oversight
- Regulatory monitoring and updates
- Compliance program administration
- Board and executive reporting
- Regulatory liaison services
- Data subject request management
- Employee training program oversight
- Audit preparation and supervision
- Privacy by design implementation
- Incident response coordination
- Vendor compliance management
- Program documentation maintenance
- Regulatory filing preparation
You receive
- Monthly compliance status reports
- Data protection strategy guidance
- Executive briefing materials
- Regulatory compliance roadmaps
- Audit preparation documentation
- Incident response guidance
- Policy and procedure updates
- Employee training materials
- Regulatory submission drafts
- Risk assessment reports
- Board presentation materials
- Compliance metrics dashboard
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Compliance Officer Advisory Services
$8.5K / mo
Expert guidance and support for your existing privacy and compliance teams with regular consulting and program oversight
- employees
- 250
- frameworks
- 2
- — Acting as the named DPO or CCO
- — Contact with regulators on the client's behalf
- — Handling individual data subject requests
- — Board presentations
Fractional DPO & CCO Service
$15K / mo
Part-time designated Data Protection Officer and/or Compliance Officer providing leadership, regulatory representation, and program management
- employees
- 1000
- frameworks
- 4
- — Day-to-day processing of every data subject request
- — Dedicated supporting team
- — Legal representation in enforcement proceedings
- — Privacy tooling licences
Enterprise Privacy & Compliance Leadership
$25K / mo
Full outsourced privacy and compliance function with dedicated team, comprehensive program management, and executive representation
- — Legal representation in enforcement proceedings
- — Privacy tooling licences
- — Security operations or technical incident response
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a advisory & fractional leadership engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Onboarding & baseline
Current program, risks, commitments and stakeholders reviewed.
You see · Access to leadership and existing documents.
02Priorities & roadmap
A risk-ranked roadmap agreed with leadership.
You see · Decisions on priorities and budget.
03Ongoing cadence
Regular working sessions, decisions and deliverables to the agreed scope.
You see · A named advisor and a standing rhythm.
04Reporting to leadership
Board and executive reporting in business terms.
You see · Board-ready updates.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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