Build the privacy program regulators, customers, and your board all expect.
Privacy obligations have multiplied across PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and a growing list of provincial and sector rules. Most organizations have fragments of a privacy program: a policy here, a consent form there, an ad-hoc breach response. Armour Cybersecurity builds the structured, operational program that satisfies regulators, scales with the business, and gives leadership a defensible position when an incident, audit, or customer question lands.
Privacy made operational, not just documented.
Privacy Risk Management is the structured discipline of assessing, designing, implementing, and operating the controls that govern how your organization handles personal information. It covers governance and accountability, data inventory, notice and consent, individual rights, privacy impact assessments, third-party privacy risk, breach readiness, training, and the evidence practices that demonstrate compliance when regulators or customers ask.
Armour Cybersecurity delivers this as a three-phase engagement. Phase one is the current-state assessment against PIPEDA with applicable overlays for Quebec Law 25, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, or sector-specific requirements. Phase two is implementation: governance, policies, individual rights procedures, PIA program, third-party privacy controls, and breach response. Phase three is ongoing operations: advisory, control monitoring, risk register maintenance, PIA support, and executive reporting.
Every engagement is led by privacy consultants with intelligence and Big Four backgrounds who have built programs across financial services, healthcare, technology, retail, and regulated industries. The result is a privacy program your team can operate independently, your auditors can verify, and your board can defend.
Why most privacy programs cannot withstand scrutiny.
Privacy law expects accountability. When a regulator inquires, a customer complains, or a breach occurs, having a policy document is not enough. The organizations that handle these moments well have operational programs that can demonstrate, with evidence, what was supposed to happen and what actually happened.
Without a privacy program
- Privacy policy exists but no one can describe how it is enforced in practice.
- No documented inventory of personal information, who has it, or where it flows.
- Individual rights requests handled ad-hoc with inconsistent response times.
- Vendor contracts lack privacy clauses or have clauses no one verifies.
- Privacy impact assessments missing or skipped for high-risk processing.
- Privacy incident response invented during the incident rather than rehearsed.
- Training delivered once at hire and never refreshed for evolving obligations.
With Armour Cybersecurity Privacy
- Documented governance with privacy ownership and accountability across functions.
- Maintained personal information inventory tied to systems, vendors, and retention.
- Structured individual rights process with intake, verification, and response tracking.
- Vendor privacy due diligence and contractual safeguards verified through evidence.
- Operational PIA program triggered by procurement, projects, and change management.
- Documented breach response procedure with regulator notification decision framework.
- Role-based training program refreshed regularly across all in-scope employees.
End-to-end privacy program coverage.
Engage individual services or a coordinated three-phase program build. Every service is delivered against the same standardized methodology so deliverables compose cleanly into a unified privacy function.
Privacy Governance & Accountability
Privacy officer designation, roles and responsibilities, governance committees, policy framework, escalation paths, and the accountability model that holds the program together.
Data Inventory & Flow Mapping
Personal information inventory covering categories of data processed, business purposes, systems and repositories, internal and external data flows, and cross-border transfer locations.
Notice, Transparency & Consent
Privacy notices, consent language and capture mechanisms, withdrawal procedures, transparency practices, and the disclosures required across websites, applications, and customer touchpoints.
Individual Rights Management
Structured process for handling access, correction, deletion, portability, and opt-out requests with intake channels, identity verification, response templates, and timeline tracking.
Privacy Impact Assessments
PIA program covering triggers, intake questionnaires, assessment templates, risk rating, approval workflow, and integration with procurement, change management, and project governance.
Third-Party Privacy Risk
Vendor classification, privacy due diligence questionnaires, data processing agreement requirements, cross-border transfer review, and ongoing vendor privacy monitoring.
Privacy Incident & Breach Response
Privacy incident classification, escalation workflow, breach assessment criteria, regulator notification decision framework, breach recordkeeping, and post-incident review process.
Privacy Training & Awareness
General privacy awareness training and role-based guidance for HR, customer support, marketing, product, IT, security, procurement, and operations teams handling personal information.
Ongoing Privacy Operations
Monthly or quarterly privacy governance support, risk register maintenance, PIA review, regulatory change tracking, vendor privacy oversight, and executive-level reporting.
Built for organizations that handle personal information at scale.
Companies under Canadian privacy law
Organizations subject to PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, or provincial privacy legislation needing a structured program that satisfies the accountability and operational expectations of Canadian regulators.
Multi-jurisdiction businesses
Companies operating across Canada, the United States, and the EU needing a unified privacy program with jurisdiction-specific overlays for CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and sector-specific requirements.
Regulated industries
Financial services, healthcare, technology, retail, and education organizations under sector-specific privacy obligations combined with general privacy law requirements.
Post-incident or post-audit
Organizations recovering from a privacy incident, regulatory inquiry, customer complaint, or audit finding that revealed material gaps in the privacy program.
A six-phase engagement built on disciplined consulting practice.
Every Armour Cybersecurity Privacy Risk Management engagement follows the same standardized phases. The discipline is what produces a program that is defensible to regulators, sustainable for your team, and adaptable as obligations evolve.
Engagement Onboarding & Scope Confirmation
Confirm objectives, identify in-scope business units, products, and systems, confirm the applicable privacy baseline and overlays, identify stakeholders, and establish working cadence and escalation procedures.
Privacy Current-State Assessment
Assess governance, data inventory, notice and consent, individual rights, PIAs, third-party privacy, safeguards, breach readiness, training, and evidence practices against PIPEDA and applicable overlays.
Gap Analysis & Risk-Based Roadmap
Document gaps, observations, and risks. Prioritize remediation by regulatory impact, business impact, and implementation effort. Deliver a roadmap with ownership, timelines, and dependencies.
Privacy Program Implementation
Implement governance, develop policies and procedures, build the personal information inventory, refine notices and consent, stand up individual rights and PIA processes, and operationalize vendor privacy controls.
Training, Breach Response & Evidence
Deliver role-based privacy training, update or develop breach response procedures with regulator notification frameworks, and establish the evidence and recordkeeping practices needed for ongoing accountability.
Ongoing Privacy Operations
Provide monthly or quarterly privacy governance support, maintain the privacy risk register, support PIAs as triggered, track regulatory change, oversee vendor privacy posture, and deliver executive-level reporting.
Outputs your privacy team, legal counsel, and regulators can all use.
Every deliverable is structured for direct use by your privacy officer, legal counsel, executive leadership, and external regulators or auditors when applicable.
Privacy Current-State Assessment Report
Comprehensive assessment of privacy posture across all domains, aligned to PIPEDA and applicable overlays, with documented findings, gaps, and risk ratings.
Privacy Requirements Traceability Matrix
Documented mapping of every assessed control to PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and sector-specific requirements as applicable.
Personal Information Inventory & Data Flow
Inventory of personal information processed including categories, purposes, systems, vendors, retention periods, and cross-border transfer locations.
Privacy Risk & Gap Register
Living register of identified privacy risks with severity, business impact, remediation status, ownership, and residual risk for ongoing program management.
Privacy Policy & Procedure Set
Tailored policies and procedures covering privacy governance, data handling, individual rights, consent management, retention, PIAs, vendor privacy, and breach response.
Individual Rights Request Procedure
Structured process with intake channels, identity verification, classification, search and retrieval workflow, response templates, and timeline tracking.
Privacy Impact Assessment Templates
PIA trigger criteria, intake questionnaire, assessment template, risk rating methodology, approval workflow, and integration guidance for procurement and change management.
Vendor Privacy Risk Materials
Vendor privacy classification, due diligence questionnaire, data processing agreement checklist, breach notification requirements, and ongoing review cadence.
Privacy Incident & Breach Response Procedure
Documented incident classification, escalation workflow, breach assessment criteria, regulator notification framework, recordkeeping templates, and communication templates.
The numbers behind the work.
Founded by military intelligence veterans with senior advisors from PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, EY, and Mandiant. The track record reflects the discipline.
Clients Served
Organizations across finance, healthcare, technology, energy, legal, and government trust Armour Cybersecurity to protect what matters.
Client Retention Rate
Long-term engagements built on consistent quality, predictable delivery, and consulting relationships that compound in value over time.
Industries · Worldwide Reach
Cross-sector experience spanning every major regulated industry, with operations supporting clients across North America, Latin America, and beyond.
Cybersecurity Technology Solutions
A vetted catalogue of technology partnerships and proprietary methods deployed in support of every engagement.
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