PrivacyOps: A Segue to Privacy Operations Center (POC)

By Cephas Okoth MJ

Elevator Pitch

Privacy is a decade behind security. Making privacyops a recently growing practice. But what if we look beyond it, extend it to a more formal and proper setup, the Privacy Operations Center (POC); to detect, monitor, respond to privacy incidents and manage technical privacy implementation?

Description

If you like, or don’t like philosophy, you’ll still love the journey down ethics and moral road of privacy, before it’s formalization in laws. Of course, we’ll explore the letter and spirit of the law, and attendant regulations if we can touch it!

Then get to where the rubber meet the road, for road-lovers! The implementation and management of privacy, aka, privacy operations (PrivOps). Demystifying the functions, practices and tooling that enables privacyops. Hint! A Live Demo will happen. With the maturity of SecOps and SOC, there are diverse things we can adapt for PrivOps that can build a case for Privacy Operations Center (POC).

Try to imagine! You can stop now! LOL

Can POC be the future of scaling privops as is? From tooling, personnel, processes and procedures, infrastructure set-up and more. Can POC be technical privacy execution point in an org? What if by approaching the privacy problem in a new way, via POC, we can actually fix the security problem?

Notes

Well, I am currently leveraging a privacyops platform to assist organizations manage their privacy compliance workload. While R&L’ing on privacyops practice and technical privacy execution.

Also, I am cheap, so I’ll just need screen projection, and obviously internet connection!