Data Protection Officer
External Data Protection Officer
The appointment of an external Data Protection Officer can place a company’s processes on a more secure legal and economic footing.
The appointed professional Data Protection Officer can support the company in this in a monitoring and advisory capacity. Due to the experience of the certified ds² consultant, their collaboration has a positive effect on the economic situation and consequently also on competitiveness. The position and tasks with which the external Data Protection Officer will be entrusted, can be broken down into three service levels, which provide solutions appropriate for any business:
1. Basic
- As far as possible the business utilises internal resources and produces the required documentation
- The ds² Data Protection Officer takes on an advisory and monitoring role for additional process optimisation
2. Best-Practice
- The appointed Data Protection Officers from ds² personally carries out all tasks falling within the remit
- Training courses are provided by the Data Protection Officer to explain opportunities for improvement to employees
- The Data Protection Officer is supported by another ds² consultant as deputy so that more than one contact person is available the to business
3. Best-Practice IT
- Includes all services from service level 2
- For further optimisation, consultancy will be provided in the field of IT, which can often be integrated into the remit of the Data Protection Officer through the necessary documentation of IT processes
- In addition to the Federal Data Protection Act reference will also be made to Federal Office for Information Security‘s Basic Protection Manual for this