Job role capstone: data protection officer (DPO)
You live a year as a data protection officer: keep the record of processing current, answer requests, put new projects through DPIAs, handle a breach, plan training and present an annual report to management.
Level 501 · 12 lessons · 12 practice labs
Lessons
The role
- The DPO's tasks, independence and conflicts of interest
- The annual privacy programme plan
- Quick task: the DPO's annual plan
Through the year
- Refreshing the record of processing
- Managing the request queue
- A DPIA opinion for a new project
- A new processor and transfer decision
- A breach reported at night: 72 hours
- Answering a regulator's information request
- Quick task: the DPO advice and decision log
Year end
- The annual privacy report to management
- Capstone: the DPO's annual file
Practice labs
- Spot the conflict of interest: Mark which of eight role combinations impair the data protection officer's independence.
- The annual privacy programme plan: From the risk assessment and last year's findings, prepare a plan that spreads audits, training and reviews over the months.
- The DPO advice and decision log: Give a written opinion on six consultation requests and log, with reasons, the decisions where management departed from the advice.
- Prioritise the request queue: Order twenty open requests by time remaining and complexity and mark those about to expire.
- Refresh the record of processing: Update the record of processing from three departments' change notices and enter the new recipients and retention periods.
- Close a complex request: Write the response to a former employee's access and erasure request, allowing for third-party data, legal retention and an ongoing dispute.
- Does the project need an opinion: Sort ten project notices into DPIA needed, DPO opinion enough or no action needed.
- Write the DPO opinion on a DPIA: Write a reasoned opinion with conditions on the DPIA of an in-store camera analytics project.
- A new processor and transfer decision: Assess the contract, transfer tool and supplementary measures for a support tool hosted abroad and write the approval decision.
- A first-hour breach checklist: Put the facts to gather and people to call in the first hour of a breach reported at night into an ordered checklist.
- Manage the 72 hours of a breach: From the unfolding facts of a breach, prepare the risk assessment, the notification decision and a phased notification text.
- Answer the regulator's information request: Draft the answer, with evidence annexes, to a ten-question information request after a complaint, plus an annual report summary for management.
About this course
You live a year as a data protection officer: keep the record of processing current, answer requests, put new projects through DPIAs, handle a breach, plan training and present an annual report to management.
What you will learn
- The role
- Through the year
- Year end
Prerequisites
You should be experienced in the topics of the same path up to level 401.
Lab environment
Lessons run in your own Kali Linux terminal that opens in the browser. Nothing to install; the lab starts clean in every lesson.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this course right for my level?
- The course is at level 501; it assumes you know the topics of the lower-level courses.
- Is there anything to install?
- No. Every lesson runs in your own lab environment that opens in the browser.
- How do lessons work?
- Each lesson has 8 to 10 steps and a short quiz. Early steps show the command to type, later steps give less help; if two attempts fail, the solution opens.
- Can I try it for free?
- Yes. The first three lessons of every course are free.