How to adapt your company to be in compliance with the LGPD?

The LGPD Law might bring together a series of challenges for all companies around. Especially related to the treatment of personal data.

Considering such scenario, many companies are still needing to adapt. Furthermore, there are several doubts related to some important matters:

•  Will it be necessary to implement part of the assets directed to investments on my technological park?
• Is it required to invest in coaching activities?
•  How can I use my clients’ data (belonging to natural persons) correctly, according to the LGPD?

Those are just some of the several doubts that might arise when the current subject comes into the discussion.

Obviously, with such a complex theme it is also important that your Company might be ready to adapt to the current reality. Primarily, without having your businesses harmed. For this purpose, let us list some important tips, among other things, that your company might adopt:

SUITABILITY OF THE COMPANY TO THE LGPD

Enabling your technical team to comply with the law.

It is fundamental that your technical team have total knowledge about the aspects of the law. Furthermore allowing your company to develop activities in a correct manner rendering, without a doubt, security for your clients. In this manner, it will be possible to carry out the respective acquisitions, with clients being aware that the company has a qualified technical body. Primarily, in all subjects referring to the law about the usage of personal data.

Total transparency about the utilization of user’s data.

The more aware a user is in relation to the fact that his(her) data are being used in the correct way, the less risks your Company will take dealing with possible legal problems. Mainly, in what is referred to the inappropriate utilization of data.

Imagine in this way…

If your company routes an authorization for the owner with all of the particular characteristics that the law defines, your Firm guards itself. In other words, your Company will be able to use data from the holders correctly. Therefore, in parallel to this scenario, the users will clearly know that their data will only be used for the purpose previously authorized.

Elaboration of a business plan.

Bearing in mind that the law, inevitably, restricts particularly the collection of the user’s data, it is essential that your Company has set a defined plan which will allow for the respect of the legislation currently in effect. Especially, without losing the relationship with the clients.

In other words, all companies are needing even more than ever of the trust coming from their clients. Therefore, the keyword to such confidence by the users is the transparency.

The client must feel comfortable with the security policies of the Company. As well as having the awareness that their data will not be used in an incorrect manner.

For this purpose, it is necessary that the Company possesses a business plan. Especially, allowing them to develop their respective activities. However, respecting the current legislation and keeping it in the best manner as possible, a real relationship with its clients.

Remembering that your company must allow that clients might be able, at any moment, to revoke the respective consent, through a free and facilitated procedure according to the conditions that the LGPD imposes.

Information Management

Another great challenge is to be able to manage all data from the holders making it comply with the law. In a company, there are several departments that sometimes need to share data between themselves.

For such, how could you guarantee that the data obtained from holders are being collected in the right manner?

For that reason, it is important for your company to have tools which will allow for the management of all the relevant information. In the same manner, allowing the user to keep all of his(her) respective personal history.

This will allow your company to have some control over all collected data. Mainly, in case it is audited by a competent body, proving that the company is in conformity with the LGPD.

For this reason, it is important that your company is able to evaluate if such staff exists currently in the business. One or more tools that make available all the resources necessary, so that all data might be managed in an appropriate manner.

Acquisition of solutions in data security

We know that in terms of policies for data security, trust and transparency are key factors for any Company to be able to perform its activities properly, even more, now considering LGPD.

However, regardless your team is properly trained, capable and also conforms exactly with all the good practices prevailing, without the presence of solutions that might guarantee the protection of data from the users, your Company will take risks of being penalized, even if that might be caused by technical reasons. Such penalties can cause considerable damages to any Company.

For this reason, it is important that beyond human qualifications and also application of the security policies, the Company matches its technological park with the intention of guaranteeing the protection of the traffic of their user data.

Knowing the traffic of the network is fundamental for your Company to have more security over the data transmitted from the users.

FINAL CONSIDERATIONS 

All companies need to fit their respective businesses to those regulations, with the intent of preserving the relationship with its respective clients, in conformity with the legislation. Transparency and security should go hand in hand now.

In this sense, there is no doubts about the importance of having investments in network management. Bringing therefore not only benefits to the visibility of networks but also being a way to seek for increased governance and efficiency.

Thinking of that,  Telcomanager with more than 17 years of experience in the market, and a leading Latin America brand in the sector of software for managing networks. Also counting with a unique and innovative technology, deploying smart solutions in the monitoring of data that will provide a stratified vision of the traffic, is now allowing your Company to follow the most important aspects of your network, in real time.