Best Practice Update

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Product Focus on Checklists : Clear desk

All of our customers have access to the DPE Knowledge Bank which has a Best Practice Checklist area.  Each checklist is designed to help you walk through all aspects of data protection.
The checklist will give you an insight about where your organisation is with data protection from a data privacy and technical security perspective. The checklists form part of the Best Practice library which includes contextualised guidance, documents and resources on specific areas of data processing.  The checklists form part of the ICO Accountability Framework which helps organisations with their governance and corporate risk management where it relates to data protection.    The checklists cover all aspects of the framework, enabling you to assess against organisation baselines:

  1. Leadership & Oversight
  2. Risk Management (DPIA's)
  3. Policies & Procedures
  4. Individual Rights
  5. Contracts & Data Sharing
  6. Transparency
  7. Training & Awareness
  8. Records Management
  9. Monitoring Verification & Reporting (Data Breaches, SARs and FOI's)
  10. Response & Enforcement (SARs and FOI's)

Clear Desk

The  clear desk checklist helps raise awareness about data breaches that can be caused through lack of clear desks.  This links to the Clear Desk Best Practice Area which gives further help and guidance about why a clear desk is important in protecting data.  There is a clear desk policy template and posters to help create awareness throughout your organisation.

This can also link to our data walks that we can offer as part of our data protection service, where a consultant can meet you onsite to do a data walk of your organisation, something we call 'Making the Rounds'.  This takes clear desks (and shelves and cupboards!) into account during the walk and will be followed up with a report and consultation.

Answer a sample clear desk checklist question:

Has the organisation implemented a clear desk policy?

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An untidy desk can hide old data or personal data breaches.  Implementing a clear desk policy and creating awareness of the benefits of having a clear desk can help prevent data breaches:

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Try asking the data protection  lead, or SLT digital lead in your organisation or contact your DPO.  Can you see any clear desk awareness posters around your organisation?

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DPE customers can get started on completing the Clear Desk checklist here:

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