Processing activity overview page
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Summary of Processing Activity Overview Page
The processing activity overview page serves as a centralized dashboard for assessing privacy risk and compliance related to data processing activities. It presents key metrics such as the overall compliance score, privacy criticality assessment scores, and a risk heatmap based on privacy risk evaluations. The page is designed in a vertical layout, providing a clear, sequential view of the data processing lifecycle from initiation to completion, enhancing usability and compliance oversight.
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Key Features
- Required Roles: Access requires the snprivacy.manager and snprivacy.analyst roles.
- Compliance Metrics: Displays overall compliance score percentage and specific breakdowns for privacy risk assessments.
- Risk Overview: Shows the criticality score, high risks without controls, and ongoing risk assessments.
- Reports: Includes various reports such as:
- Compliance posture by month: Trend chart showing the monthly compliance score.
- Compliance status: Donut chart detailing the status of all controls.
- Controls by authority documents or policies: Bar chart on compliance status associated with governing documents.
- Privacy assessments status: Single score for open, overdue, and approaching assessments.
- Recently completed privacy assessments: List of assessments that have been finalized.
- Issues: Single score for open, overdue, and approaching issues, including priority breakdowns.
- Policy exceptions: Single score and risk rating breakdown for active, expiring, and requested exceptions.
Key Outcomes
By utilizing the processing activity overview page, customers can effectively monitor and manage their privacy compliance posture, assess risks associated with data processing activities, and identify areas needing attention. This consolidated view enhances decision-making and ensures adherence to privacy regulations, ultimately promoting better data management practices within the organization.
The processing activity overview page provides the privacy risk and compliance posture for a processing activity. This page contains details such the overall compliance score, and trends, privacy criticality assessment scores and risk heatmap based on privacy risk assessments, privacy assessment status, control attestations and issues-specific status.
The vertical layout of a processing activity provides a structured, top-down view that presents information in a clear and sequential manner. This design facilitates an intuitive understanding of the data processing lifecycle by visually representing each step of the workflow in a linear progression. You can easily trace the flow of information from initiation through to completion, enabling better insight into how personal data is collected, used, shared, and retained. This layout supports streamlined navigation and improves the ability to identify key elements and dependencies within the processing activity, enhancing both usability and compliance oversight.
Required roles
To view the home page, you must have sn_privacy.manager and the sn_privacy.analyst roles.
Use cases
| User | Dashboard use |
|---|---|
| Privacy manager and Privacy analyst | The privacy manager and the privacy analyst can view and understand the privacy compliance posture of the given processing activity. |
Indicators
Processing activity compliance score percentage: Compliance score percentage of processing activity.
Breakdowns
- Processing activity
- Privacy analyst
Risk overview
The risk overview section displays the processing activity criticality score, the number of high risks with no controls, the details of the on-going risk assessments, and the risk heatmap.
Reports
This dashboard displays the following reports:
| Title | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Compliance posture by month | Trend chart  |
Compliance posture by month is plotted by referring to the processing activity compliance score. |
| Compliance status | Donut  |
This report provides the compliance status of all the controls for the processing activity. |
| Controls (by authority documents or by policies) | Bar chart |
This report provides the compliance status of the controls that are associated with the authority documents or policies. |
| Privacy assessments status | Single score  |
Shows the number of assessments that are open, overdue, and approaching due date. |
| Recently completed privacy assessments | List report  |
Shows the list of recently completed privacy assessments. |
| Issues | Single score |
Shows the number of issues that are open, overdue, and approaching due date. |
| Issues by priority | Donut |
Shows the issues by their priority. |
| Policy exceptions | Single score |
Shows the number of policy exceptions that are active, expiring, and requested. |
| By risk rating | Donut |
Shows the policy exceptions by their risk ratings. |