Privacy Just One Responsibility For Most Privacy Professionals, Says Osano
Privacy is often only part of the job for most privacy professionals, which makes protecting data more challenging, compliance vendor Osano blogged Friday.
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“The privacy program managers, chief privacy officers, and other purely privacy-focused professionals are in the minority,” Osano wrote. “Most people working with privacy have a literal or implied hyphen in their job title.” That can make the job difficult. “If you’re only reacting to privacy challenges as they come up, you’ll never gain the time to attend to all of your responsibilities at once.”
Challenges include “seeing only part of the privacy picture, feeling alone in your work, and struggling to show why the organization should care.”
“But investing effort in strategies like training and awareness, considering privacy in your tooling and technology, and building privacy-focused relationships across teams will make your downstream privacy tasks significantly easier,” Osano continued. “Often, you’ll be able to embed privacy into your other tasks and responsibilities, effectively killing two birds with one stone.”