Privacy tools

IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals), in its annual Vendor tech report categorize privacy tools as given below:

Tools for Privacy program management

Assessment management tools tend to automate different functions of a privacy program, such as operationalizing privacy impact assessments, locating risk gaps, demonstrating compliance and helping privacy officers scale complex tasks requiring spreadsheets, data entry and reporting. Consent management tools help organizations collect, track, demonstrate and manage users’ consent. Data mapping solutions can come in manual or automated form and help organizations determine data flows throughout the enterprise. Data subject request solutions help organizations facilitate inquires made by individuals who wish to exercise their data rights. These can include requests involving the right to access, rectification, portability and erasure. Incident response solutions help companies respond to a data breach incident by providing information to relevant stakeholders of what was compromised and what notification obligations must be met. ​ Privacy information management tools provide organizations with extensive and often automated information on the latest privacy laws around the world. Website scanning tools primarily checks a client’s website to determine what cookies, beacons and other trackers are embedded to help ensure compliance with various cookie laws and other regulations.

Tools for Enterprise privacy management

Activity monitoring tools helps organizations determine who has access to personal data and when it is being accessed or processed. These solutions often come with controls to help manage activity. ​ Data discovery tools tends to be an automated technology that helps organizations determine and classify what kind of personal data they possess to help manage privacy risk and compliance. Targeted data discovery solutions translate the manual tasks required to fulfill consumer rights requests into automated processes ​ Deidentification/Pseudonymity solutions help data scientists, researchers and other stakeholders derive value from datasets without compromising the privacy of the data subjects in a given dataset. Enterprise communications solutions help organizations communicate internally in a secure way to avoid embarrassing or dangerous leaks of employee communications.