Data Protection Auditor Training

Under the GDPR, the role of the Data Protection Officer goes beyond providing advice. DPOs are also expected to exercise independent and critical oversight of an organisation’s actual compliance with data protection requirements. This supervisory responsibility requires structured audit competencies, including planning assurance activities, assessing risks, conducting interviews and document reviews, and formulating clear, actionable recommendations for management.

Learn how to conduct an audit: Through a stap-by-step approach we will guide you from scratch to conduct a GDPR audit. We will learn how to set audit objectives, scope, planning, audit activities and management reporting.

Do it yourself and get feedback and guidance: We will challenge you to conduct your own audit based. We will bring participants together to evaluate and discuss your audit strategy, plan and reporting skills. You will be challenged to audit your own company or a DPI produced case.

A 3-Day Practical Format: The training spans three days to ensure a deep understanding of both theory and practice. While the first two days focus heavily on how to audit compliance, the third day is specifically designed as an online mentoring and feedback session. During this final day, you will learn how to translate your audit results into concrete improvement actions and build your own audit report. Furthermore, you will practice techniques for reporting to management and the board, directly benefiting from peer review and mentor feedback.

Training features

Why take this course?

• This module is an ideal introduction to the world of audits
• You want to apply the GDPR in your company
• You want to check whether the GDPR has been applied correctly

Target group

Are you a DPO, an internal or external auditor or do you want to further improve your advice for customers? Do you need guidance for a GDPR audit? Do you want to assess processors on GDPR or do you want to carry out external audits? Then this training is for you. GDPR knowledge is required for this training.

Learning goals

Educational approach of this course

This module is taught in English and takes place in a training room in a hotel.

The training is provided by teachers who are top experts in their field. The teachers present the subject matter by means of a presentation.

There is interaction with the group during the explanation. Typically, the group for this course is about 20 students (minimum 8, maximum 24 students).

Each student receives a printed version of the training material with space for taking notes. In addition, the information is made available in a digital learning environment. For all knowledge items, the teacher refers to practical examples.

How to prepare yourself

DPO certification or an introductory course GDPR.

You do not have to prepare anything prior to this training, except for a refresher on the main principles of the GDPR.

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