Crisis management and data protection organization 

Even if during the COVID-19-pandemic companies often focus on measures to maintain the actual core business and mission-critical business processes, the topic of data protection must not be ignored in view of the increasingly digital business processes. In this respect, ensuring the functionality and responsiveness of the data protection organization (organizational unit to ensure data protection) is essential. In this respect, the data protection organization is currently undergoing an unplanned "stress test", in the context of which it is necessary to maintain the data protection organization's ability in the short term and to use the knowledge gained for optimization in the long term.

Read more regarding recommended actions in our working paper.