Protect privacy.
Build trust. Stay compliant.
Privacy compliance programs designed for scrutiny — from Australian Privacy Act to GDPR, HIPAA, and CPRA.
Privacy is more than a policy — it is a promise. In today's digital economy, protecting personal information is a strategic advantage, not just a legal requirement. We help you identify privacy risks, achieve privacy compliance across global and regional regulations, and implement programs that stand up to scrutiny from regulators, customers, and your board.
protected, tracked,
and defensible.
Privacy is more than a policy — it's a promise.
Non-compliance does not just lead to fines. It damages your reputation, erodes customer trust, and closes doors on enterprise deals that require a mature privacy posture. And with the Australian Privacy Act reforms, tightened OAIC enforcement, and expanding global regulation, the bar keeps rising.
At Cyber Compliance Pro, we build privacy programs that are resilient, transparent, and compliant from the ground up — grounded in real data flows, aligned to the regulations that apply to you, and designed to hold up in front of the OAIC, an EU supervisory authority, or your largest enterprise buyer's procurement team.
End-to-end support for a strong privacy posture
We design, implement, and maintain privacy programs that meet regulatory requirements today and adapt to what's coming next.
Privacy Risk Assessments (PIA/DPIA)
Identify how personal data is collected, processed, and exposed — then mitigate risks with actionable, prioritised recommendations that align to your regulatory obligations.
- Privacy Impact Assessments for new systems and vendors
- Data Protection Impact Assessments under GDPR Article 35
- Risk register with residual-risk scoring
Regulatory Compliance Readiness
Prepare for and meet the requirements of the Australian Privacy Act, GDPR, CPRA, HIPAA, and other global regulations — with a single unified program instead of parallel silos.
- Multi-jurisdiction obligation mapping
- Gap analysis and remediation plan
- OAIC and supervisory-authority engagement
Privacy Policy & Notice Development
Draft clear, legally compliant policies and disclosures for internal and external stakeholders — the kind a regulator recognises as adequate and a customer can actually understand.
- Public-facing privacy notices and cookie banners
- Internal policy suite and standards
- Layered notice design for mobile and web
Data Mapping & Inventory
Understand where personal data resides, who has access, and how it flows across systems and third parties — the evidence base every other privacy activity relies on.
- Records of Processing Activities (RoPA)
- Data-flow diagrams and system inventory
- Cross-border transfer register
Consent & Rights Management
Implement processes for data subject access requests (DSARs), consent capture, and opt-out mechanisms — with the workflow, tooling, and SLAs to keep response times inside regulator limits.
- DSAR intake, verification, and fulfilment workflow
- Consent capture and preference management
- Opt-out and unsubscribe registers
Third-Party Privacy Risk Management
Assess vendor privacy risk and establish privacy clauses in supplier agreements — because your privacy posture is only as strong as your weakest data processor.
- Vendor privacy assessments and tiering
- Data Processing Agreements and SCCs
- Ongoing monitoring and re-attestation
Privacy applied at every stage
Personal data moves through six clear stages — and every stage carries specific regulatory obligations. Our programs cover each one, so nothing gets missed and no data lives longer than it should.
Collect
Lawful basis, notice, and consent — captured with the right proof at the right moment.
Process
Purpose limitation, minimisation, and role-based access, controlled and logged.
Store
Encryption at rest, classified handling, and access reviews mapped to sensitivity.
Share
Cross-border transfers, vendor processing, and SCCs handled with the right guardrails.
Retain
Retention schedules by purpose and jurisdiction — enforced, not aspirational.
Dispose
Verifiable deletion or anonymisation — with certificates and audit trail.
Privacy compliance aligned to the regimes that apply to you
Every organisation faces a different mix of privacy obligations. We build a unified program mapped to yours — not a set of parallel silos that duplicate each other.
Australian Privacy Act & APPs
The 13 Australian Privacy Principles, Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, and the reforms tightening enforcement and penalties from the OAIC.
GDPR
Full lifecycle compliance — lawful basis, DPIAs, data subject rights, 72-hour breach notification, and cross-border transfer mechanisms.
CCPA / CPRA
Consumer rights, sensitive personal information handling, opt-out of sale and sharing, and the California Privacy Protection Agency's enforcement priorities.
HIPAA
Privacy Rule, Security Rule, and Breach Notification Rule — for covered entities, business associates, and healthcare-adjacent SaaS.
NIST Privacy Framework
The NIST voluntary framework for managing privacy risk — used to structure programs that can flex across multiple regulatory regimes.
ISO/IEC 27701
The ISO extension to 27001 for a Privacy Information Management System — the certification path for demonstrating privacy maturity to enterprise buyers.
A five-stage path
to a defensible privacy program
A structured methodology that turns privacy from a legal document into an operational capability — with clear milestones and evidence at every stage.
Data Discovery & Mapping
We map personal data across systems, processes, and third parties — the evidence base that anchors every subsequent decision.
Risk & Gap Assessment
We assess privacy risk against your applicable regulations and identify the gaps between current state and target compliance.
Program & Policy Build
We design your privacy operating model — policies, notices, workflows, and roles — right-sized to your business and obligations.
Implement & Train
We roll out controls, DSR workflows, breach playbooks, and training — with change support so the program lands and sticks.
Assurance & Refresh
We keep the program current with annual DPIA refreshes, regulatory-change monitoring, and ongoing vendor re-attestation.
Privacy programs built to stand up to scrutiny
Every engagement pairs legal-grade rigour with hands-on implementation experience — so the program you get is defensible, not just documented.
Legal + Technical Expertise
Our team bridges the gap between compliance requirements and IT operations — so the privacy program you get is legally sound and technically implementable, without translation loss between the lawyers and the engineers.
Global Regulation Coverage
Whether you're operating in Australia, the EU, the US, or across multiple jurisdictions, we've got you covered — with a unified program that satisfies every regulator without duplicating effort.
Audit-Ready Documentation
Every artefact — RoPA, DPIA, breach register, vendor assessments — is structured to satisfy the OAIC, EU supervisory authorities, and enterprise procurement teams the day the request lands.
Security-Integrated Privacy
We align privacy compliance with your broader cybersecurity and governance strategy — one unified control set, one evidence library, one narrative. Privacy and security shouldn't be run as parallel silos.
Privacy leaders across every regulated sector
We help privacy leaders manage risk and maintain trust across the sectors where personal data volume, sensitivity, and regulatory scrutiny are highest.
& Aged Care
& Insurance
SaaS & Data
& Research
& Public Sector
New to the process? Start with our privacy impact assessment guide, then use the template to document it.
Common questions,
clear answers
A few of the questions we hear most from privacy officers, DPOs, and legal teams standing up or refreshing a privacy program.
The Australian Privacy Principles are 13 principles in the Privacy Act 1988 that set out how personal information must be collected, used, disclosed, secured, accessed and corrected. They apply to Australian Government agencies and many private organisations, including most with an annual turnover above $3 million.
A Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is the general-purpose privacy risk analysis used under the Australian Privacy Act and most global regimes. A Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) is the specific instrument required under GDPR Article 35 for high-risk processing. In practice, they share most of the same content — data flows, risks, mitigations — and we build them from a unified template that satisfies both. If you process EU personal data at scale, or handle sensitive categories, you need the DPIA form. Everyone benefits from PIAs for new systems, vendors, and material changes.
The reforms tightening OAIC enforcement, penalty regimes, and individual rights are landing progressively. The most robust preparation is not to wait: build the fundamentals — RoPA, DPIAs, DSR workflow, breach response, retention — to a GDPR-adjacent standard now, and the incremental adjustments to meet reformed Australian requirements become straightforward. We keep a live matrix of the reform items and how they map to your program.
Very possibly — GDPR's extraterritorial reach means it applies to any organisation offering goods or services to individuals in the EU, or monitoring their behaviour there, regardless of where the organisation is headquartered. A single EU customer, a marketing campaign targeting Europe, or analytics tracking EU visitors can be enough. The first step is a scoping assessment to confirm whether you're in scope and, if so, what specific obligations bite — not every article applies to every organisation.
Under GDPR, the standard response window is one calendar month, extendable to three for complex requests. Under the Australian Privacy Act, the OAIC expects a "reasonable" period — generally 30 days as a benchmark. CPRA sets 45 days with a 45-day extension available. In practice, the internal SLA that keeps you safe across regimes is 21 days — that's what we build workflows around, with automation for identity verification and data retrieval to keep the response time predictable.
Yes, with the right mechanisms. Under GDPR that usually means Standard Contractual Clauses, adequacy decisions, or Binding Corporate Rules — plus a Transfer Impact Assessment for higher-risk destinations. Under APP 8, you remain accountable for offshore recipients and must take reasonable steps to ensure they don't breach the APPs. We map every cross-border flow and put the right guardrails around it, including SCCs and DPAs for your major cloud and SaaS vendors.
Fast. GDPR requires notification to the supervisory authority within 72 hours of becoming aware of a personal data breach, and to affected individuals without undue delay if the breach is likely to result in high risk. Australia's Notifiable Data Breaches scheme requires OAIC and individual notification "as soon as practicable" once you form the view that serious harm is likely. We build breach playbooks with pre-drafted notification templates and decision trees — so the assessment, escalation, and notification pathway is already prepared when the call comes in.
Their team stood up a privacy program that finally treats our data footprint as one thing — instead of a legal binder in one hand and an engineering diagram in the other. When our largest enterprise buyer asked for a DPIA and RoPA extract, we sent it inside a day.
Take control
of your privacy risk.
Data privacy is a business imperative — non-compliance damages reputation, erodes trust, and closes doors on enterprise deals. Request a privacy consultation and we'll help you assess your exposure and define a clear compliance strategy.