Your step-by-step guide to GDPR compliance in Wired Relations
Wired Relations uses a data mapping approach, so you can maintain compliance in a straightforward way. Here is your step-by-step guide.
Publish date: January 23, 2025
The essence of any GDPR system is the mapping of your organisation's data. In order to describe your processing activities and address any compliance gaps, you need to get hold of the details.
Read on, to see how you can use data mapping to maintain GDPR compliance by taking a simple and systematic approach.
1. Set up your Wired Relations account
2. Start by mapping all Systems your organisation uses
3. Continue by mapping all Vendors your organisation uses
Make sure to map your vendors, especially your data processors, in the vendors section - learn more about mapping vendors here.
4. Map your Processing Activities
By connecting your Systems, Vendors and processes you can map out your Processing Activities and document your organisation's processing of personal data.
Mapping your systems and vendors first (Steps 2 & 3) make this step much easier.
If you want to learn more about how to structure your Processing Activities, we recommend you look at our processing activities articles. In particular the following:
Once you've set up all your Processing Activities, we'll automatically generate your article 30 Record of Processing Activities.
5. Evaluate the legality of processing – and your procedures and policies
Make sure to also think about the legality of your processing, and whether you have sufficient procedures and policies in place.
See our templates for the most common policies and procedures.
6. Automate your compliance work
GDPR compliance is not a one-off exercise, instead it should be a process of taking control of your use of, documentation around, and awareness of personal data on an everyday basis.
- You need to treat your records as living documents and conduct regular reviews to ensure they’re accurate and up to date – and that current and new Systems, Vendors and Processing Activities are mapped and up to date
- Set up controls to keep track of your Systems, Vendors and data processors, Processing Activities, deletion procedures, policy updates, etc. Use your Task Manager to create a set of recurring tasks and delegate responsibility to those best equipped to complete the task.
Read more about tasks - Facilitate regular awareness training, and make sure to continuously maintain, evaluate and improve your efforts as your organisation develops, and put your policies to use.
- Integrate Wired Relations with your ecosystem of services – Slack, Teams, Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), Gsuite etc.
- Get procedures in place for the handling of data subject requests, data breaches, and supervision from data protection authorities, etc.
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