POPIA Compliance: The Power Of Technology

1. POPIA Compliance: 8 conditions a responsible party should be aware of
2. POPIA Compliance: Implementation Solutions
3. POPIA Compliance: the power of technology (this article)

In this article we provide a brief view of how technology can be very powerfully used in supporting the Legal Advisory services of a POPIA or GDPR Compliance Programme within a Data Privacy Technology based Management system.

As well as the use of technology detection and prevention tools to mitigate risk exposures, data breach and cyber-attacks.

Legal compliance vs the Technical scope of complying with POPIA

One could roughly say that the legal process aspects of addressing POPIA / GDPR compliance is approximately one third in meeting the requirements, where the technical controls relating to information security and protection or preventative measures makes up the other two thirds of compliance requirements.