Develop a positive Privacy culture with LMS-ready online training
More than half of all personal data breaches are caused by accidents and mistakes, often - but not always - triggered by phishing and other scams.
We know instinctively when something is fair or unfair, right or wrong, and we naturally take more care of things that we feel are important.
Of course compliance with the GDPR is important, and the fines and other impacts of non-compliance can harm your organisation, but we do not believe that a training course on the GDPR with examples of eye-watering fines suffered by global companies is as effective in reducing the risk of breaches.
APIMS Privacy Essentials is specifically designed to reduce your risk of breaches and build a positive Privacy culture by:
(a) making your employees think about their own and their family’s privacy and personal information, and how precious it is to them, and
(b) developing two qualities that your employees already have: common sense and a good moral compass.
Training should be concise, focused and accessible. APIMS Privacy Essentials training is available 24/7, takes just 30 minutes and focuses on driving the behaviours that enhance compliance and reduce risk.
You don’t need to be a GDPR expert to be compliant. Our training avoids legal jargon, focusing on principles that everyone understands, raising awareness of risks and providing practical security tips.
Privacy Essentials ends with a short, carefully designed test, a certificate and a Privacy Principles download in A4 poster format to help your team keep Privacy front-of-mind throughout the year.
Key Privacy terms are explained in everyday language. Legal terms such as “personal data” and “special categories of data” are explained but less legalistic terms such as “Personal Information” and “Sensitive Personal Information” are more relatable.
This lays the foundation for you to build a positive Privacy culture. By asking the learner to think about their own and their family’s Privacy and Personal Information, it engages their innate desire to do the right thing to make them more protective.
The principles on which the whole of the GDPR is based are explained in everyday language, focusing on the two that are the most relevant to all employees day-to-day, and the most effective in developing the foundation of a positive Privacy culture
A objective here is to raise awareness that breaches have real-life consequences for real people. Often it’s little more than irritation but occasionally it can be catastrophic. The message is that we all have a moral responsibility when we handle people’s Personal Information.
It is accepted that accidents happen, and we all make mistakes, but this is balanced with a responsibility to report incidents. A positive Privacy culture reduces the risk that employees will fail to report incidents for fear of punishment, so you can respond quickly to minimise the harm.
The areas covered are summarised and the learner is asked to download and read the Privacy Principles Summary, a concise, plain-English PDF in A4 poster format explaining each of the seven principles, before taking a short test with a certificate for those achieving the pass mark.
“CPOMS has been using APIMS for a couple of years. APIMS really came into its own when we had a consensual ICO audit. We were able to show the ICO our Accountability Framework, our ROPAs and our Risk Register with up-to-date information on risk ratings and control status displayed on the dashboard. The auditors said they were ‘really impressed’ with our processes, as well as our training module – also produced by APIMS.”
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