Privacy workshop

Your customers are seeking assurances about how your organization handles the personal information they provide to you. Do your business and IT processes support the requirements of the recently adopted European Union Privacy Directive or other applicable privacy regulations and industry standards?

As your business exploits the Internet to reach worldwide markets, you will need to understand privacy issues from a global perspective.

In addition, you will need an overall assessment of how responsibly and effectively your organization manages information it collects and uses from a privacy perspective.

Sound privacy practices, both business and technical, will need to be put in place to maintain the privacy of your customers personal information. The best way to address your business needs is to develop an organization-wide privacy strategy. IBM's one-day Privacy Workshop is designed to help companies understand these new challenges and develop management plans to meet them.

Service covers:

• An introduction to the latest privacy issues, including how they might apply to your current and future business strategies. This will improve your understanding of privacy issues from a global perspective, including key privacy principles
• A facilitated self-assessment of your organization's capability to meet relevant global and local privacy issues. This will identify the business activities that collect and process personal information, help you assess the nature and priority of your organization's specific privacy requirements, and assist in understanding the potential impact that privacy requirements might have on your applications, systems, databases and networks
• Optionally, a report delivered within a week following the workshop that describes the strengths and weaknesses found with conclusions and recommendations for short and long term management actions that could maintain or improve your privacy practices consistent with your business objectives.

Price:
The contract amount for IBM's one-day Privacy Workshop, without the optional report, is $5,000. For the workshop with a follow-up report, the total contract amount is $10,000. Taxes and applicable travel and living expenses are extra.