In today's digital world, every click, every purchase, and every interaction creates a digital footprint. Your customers trust you with their most personal information, but are you protecting it with the same care you'd want for your own? Data breaches cost companies an average of $4.5 million per incident, but the real cost is something far more valuable that is customer trust.
ISO 27701 Privacy Information Management isn't just about compliance, it's about building an unshakeable foundation of trust with your customers. This internationally recognized standard extends ISO 27001 to specifically address privacy and personal data protection, helping you turn privacy from a legal requirement into a competitive advantage.
Why Privacy Management is Your Business's New Superpower
Trust & Credibility
Transform privacy protection from a cost center into a trust-building engine that attracts and retains customers.
Global Compliance
Stay ahead of evolving privacy regulations worldwide with a framework that adapts to GDPR, CCPA, and emerging laws.
Risk Mitigation
Dramatically reduce the risk of costly data breaches and regulatory fines through proactive privacy management.
Market Advantage
Stand out as a privacy-first organization that customers, partners, and stakeholders can trust with their data.
Our Privacy-by-Design Approach
At Tritact, we believe privacy isn't something you bolt on at the end, it's something you build in from the beginning. Our approach helps you create a privacy management system that protects your customers while empowering your business to grow responsibly.
Privacy Landscape Analysis
We start by mapping your current data flows and privacy practices. What personal data do you collect? How do you use it? Where does it go? We conduct comprehensive privacy impact assessments to understand your current state and identify gaps that need addressing.
Building Your Privacy Framework
Together, we design a privacy management system that fits your business like a glove. No cookie-cutter solutions here. We create policies, procedures, and controls that make sense for your industry, your customers, and your team's way of working.
Team Empowerment
Privacy protection isn't just an IT issue, it's everyone's responsibility. We train your team to become privacy champions who understand not just what to do, but why it matters. We make privacy awareness engaging and practical, not boring and bureaucratic.
Implementation & Testing
We help you roll out your privacy management system systematically, testing each component to ensure it works in real-world scenarios. We conduct privacy audits, incident response drills, and subject access request exercises to make sure everything clicks when you need it most.
Certification & Beyond
When you're ready, we guide you through the certification process with confidence. But certification is just the beginning. We help you build a culture of continuous privacy improvement that keeps you ahead of emerging threats and changing regulations.
Common Questions About ISO 27701
ISO 27701 is an international standard that extends ISO 27001 to specifically address Privacy Information Management (PIMS). While GDPR is a legal requirement in Europe, ISO 27701 is a comprehensive management system standard that helps you comply with multiple privacy regulations worldwide, including GDPR, CCPA, and others.
Think of GDPR as the rules of the road, and ISO 27701 as your GPS and driving instructor combined. It doesn't just tell you what to do, it shows you how to build systems and processes that ensure consistent, ongoing compliance while improving your overall privacy posture.
Yes, ISO 27701 is an extension of ISO 27001, so you need to have ISO 27001 certification (or implement it alongside) to achieve ISO 27701. This might sound like double work, but it's actually brilliant design.
ISO 27001 gives you the foundation of information security management, while ISO 27701 adds the specialized privacy management layer on top. Together, they create a comprehensive system that protects both the security and privacy of personal data.
The good news is that we can help you implement both simultaneously, maximizing efficiency and minimizing disruption to your business operations.
Timeline: If you already have ISO 27001, adding ISO 27701 typically takes 3-6 months. If you're starting fresh with both standards, expect 6-12 months depending on your organization's size and current privacy maturity.
Investment: The cost varies based on your organization's complexity, but consider this: the average data breach costs $4.5 million, while privacy violations can result in fines up to 4% of annual revenue. ISO 27701 is preventive medicine, not just a certificate.
ROI Reality: Beyond risk mitigation, certified organizations often see increased customer trust, new business opportunities from privacy-conscious clients, and reduced privacy management costs through efficient processes.
You might be surprised by how much personal data your business actually handles. Employee records, customer contacts, website analytics, security cameras, email communications, payment information - it adds up quickly.
But here's the thing: ISO 27701 isn't just about the volume of data, it's about demonstrating responsible data stewardship regardless of scale. Even if you process limited personal data, certification shows customers, partners, and regulators that you take privacy seriously.
Plus, as your business grows, you'll be ahead of the curve rather than scrambling to catch up when privacy requirements become critical to your operations or market opportunities.
Certification is your privacy management system's graduation day, not retirement. Here's your ongoing journey with annual surveillance audits to ensure your privacy management system stays healthy and effective, continuous monitoring of new privacy risks and regulatory changes, regular training updates to keep your team current with evolving privacy practices and threats, privacy impact assessments for evaluating new projects and processes for privacy implications, and three-year recertification with comprehensive review and renewal of your certification.
We're your long-term privacy partners, not just consultants who disappear after the certificate is issued.
Privacy is personal, and so is our approach. What makes us different includes our deep privacy expertise with understanding of global privacy regulations and their practical implications, our dual-standard efficiency where we can implement ISO 27001 and 27701 together saving time and resources, our business-first mindset ensuring privacy enhances rather than hinders your business operations, our local knowledge of regional privacy challenges and opportunities, and our ongoing partnership with continuous support as privacy regulations and threats evolve.
Most importantly, we believe privacy should be a competitive advantage, not just a compliance checkbox. Your privacy maturity becomes our shared success story.
Ready to Turn Privacy into Your Competitive Advantage?
Stop treating privacy as a burden and start leveraging it as a trust-building engine. Let's build your privacy management system today.