The Gap Assessment tool is designed to help organizations fill any holes in their data protection policy and compliance with PDPA through representatives from various departments. By preventing unlawful access to personal information, it could protect the data owner from harm.

The company's stakeholders can use it to figure out roles and responsibilities among themselves, as well as who primarily has control over the collected data. Plus, it includes a means to revise forms, so they are consistent with PDPA law

The Gap Assessment tool is a powerful analysis tool that can be used to compare the processes currently in place in your company with the recommendations of the PDPA laws. 
It will generate a comparative analysis that covers your company's current processes against the recommendations made by PDPA laws and guide

you step by step to verify all data processing activities and actors in each department and make sure your company is lawfully processing data.

This tool is an essential part of ensuring that your company is compliant with the new data protection laws.

The Gap Assessment tool is a great way to assess how your company is doing in terms of data protection compliance. However, there are a few things you should keep in mind when using the tool. First, you must be thorough in your assessment. Go through each step carefully and make sure you understand the questions.
Second, you should focus on the point of view of the data subject or data

Owner. What are the risks for him if there was a data leak?
You also need to consider that you can only process data for the exact purpose that has been agreed upon and that you can not keep data for any exceeding length of time.

By taking these things into consideration, you will be able to get the most accurate assessment possible.

To get the most out of the Gap Assessment, it is crucial to work as a team and have delineated responsibilities for each department.
The data controller must be selected cautiously, his role carefully explained and clear instructions should be given to every data processor. 

Each piece of personal data being processed needs to be analyzed to understand if the processing is legal, if it is fair to the data owner, and allowed. By taking these steps, you can guarantee that the Gap Assessment will serve its purpose optimally.

There are many ways to use the Gap Assessment tool but the best way is to follow carefully the steps in the suggested order. Firstly, you need to collect all the necessary information and compare it with our recommended structure and processes. Data classification is paramount and will determine how you need to store and protect it.

Our Gap Assessment tool is easy and straightforward to follow. Simply collect the necessary information, compare it with our recommended structure and processes, fill out the data classification form, and you're done! 

Following these steps in order will ensure that correct and acceptable data is processed correctly and stored securely.

Once you have a general understanding of the PDPA, you need to sit down and map out exactly how data will flow through your company and where it originates from. Then, you must define what each person in charge of handling data is allowed to do with it. Lastly, document everything so that if anything goes wrong, all these elements are readily available and you will make sure that your business processes comply with the law.