Build and maintain your yearly cycle of compliance tasks

Privacy teams face an ever-increasing workload. You need a tool to organise, prioritise, and streamline the work – one that automatically consolidates everything into your compliance calendar.

Published: 
November 6, 2023
Karen Syppli Hansen
Head of Product

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Privacy teams face an ever-increasing workload. To organise, prioritise, and streamline the work, you need a tool that automatically consolidates all your tasks into a unified compliance calendar.

As most people experience it...

Endless to-do lists, calendar notes, and structural breakdowns. Keeping track of compliance tasks is incredibly hard. You are spread thin between vendor and software assessments, vendor audits, controls, planning awareness training, and firefighting around the organisation. And you are tied to regulatory compliance and documentation of your work.

The organisation of the work is typically anchored in software that is not connected to your data, and everything must therefore be updated manually. It's no wonder that it's hard to find time to add value to the organisation. With Wired Relations Task Manager, you can create structure and get an overview of your compliance calendar and all the associated tasks. We give you an insight into how below.

Here's how to take control of your compliance task calendar

Manage all tasks from the same space.

All the team's tasks are gathered in one view. With easy access to check status, filter views, see owners, check deadlines and label things, you’re in absolute control of your privacy work, day to day.

Prioritise with crystal clarity.

With due dates, task types and status collected in a single view, you can easily change priorities and move resources around to get back on track.

Create recurring tasks for audits and controls.

Set tasks as recurring at a specific interval to make them part of your yearly cycle. This way, you get a notification when it’s time to do the work again.

Avoid work overload. Balance out your yearly cycle of tasks.

Plan your yearly cycle of new and recurring tasks – and evaluate your workload-balance to make sure your time and energy is spent right.

Connect tasks and data and let work flow better.

Connect tasks to any system, vendor, processing activity or governance control. This way, you can view and access tasks from any point of work in the system, and have full control with less time spent.

Assign teams outside of compliance and get the right data.

Invite system owners in your organisation to fill in the knowledge gaps and build stronger data protection together. Limit their access, see their contributions and level up your program.

Never lose a task again with ownership and task redistribution.

All tasks are required to have an owner. If a task owner leaves your company, you’re automatically prompted to distribute tasks to new owners before moving on. That way, you never lose or miss important tasks again.

Evaluate tasks for audits and controls as you complete them.

Evaluate tasks as you complete them and add notes for later follow-ups. This lets others easily continue your work, and gives you a better overview of audits as well as governance standards such as ISO 27001.

Task history is auto-created as you work.

Task history is automatically registered, so you can easily see what happened and who has been working on the task.

Get your overview in a table or KanBan.

View your tasks in a way that’s best suited to the job at hand. Use the KanBan board to easily move tasks around, or get a full overview of tasks in list view to work faster.

Are you interested in seeing how Wired Relations can help make your yearly cycle of compliance tasks operational?

Book a demo here.