Privacy Risk
What is Privacy Risk?
The potential for harm to individuals resulting from the collection, processing, or disclosure of their personal information.
Terms that appear alongside privacy risk
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as privacy risk. The number is how many controls name both.
- risk assessment 15 shared controls
- data protection 10 shared controls
- compliance 9 shared controls
- gdpr 9 shared controls
- accountability 9 shared controls
- governance 7 shared controls
- privacy risk assessment 7 shared controls
- nist 6 shared controls
Frameworks that govern privacy risk
What the standards actually require on privacy risk
Requirements naming privacy risk across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Integrating privacy risks into the overall organizational risk management framework
27557-4.2 · Privacy risk integration →Identify privacy risks to PII principals across the processing lifecycle using systematic methods.
ISO29134-7.1 · Privacy Risk Identification →Risk Management Strategy. Develops a comprehensive strategy to manage: Security risk to organizational operations and assets, individuals, other organizations, and the Nation associated with the operation and use of organizational systems; and Privacy risk
NIST800-PM-9 · Risk Management Strategy. Develops a comprehensive strategy to manage: Security risk to organizational operations and assets, individuals, other organizations, and the Nation associated with the operation and use of organizational systems; and Privacy risk →Organisation conducts assessments to identify and evaluate privacy risks arising from data processing activities.
PMF-M.3 · Privacy Risk Assessment →Risk sources related to personal data collection, processing, and storage by IoT systems
27400-5.4 · Data and privacy risks →Assess privacy risk factors including PII categories, processing operations, technology, and PII principal context.
ISO29100-6.2 · Privacy Risk Factors →Questions people ask about privacy risk
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