POPICheck
First Technology Digital Solutions
POPICheck
First Technology Digital Solutions
POPICheck
First Technology Digital Solutions
POPICheck is a rapid assessment tool that helps organisations gauge their POPI compliance
POPICheck is a cloud based, rapid assessment tool
that helps organisations gauge their readiness for compliance with the
Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), South
Africa's data protection law.
To ensure POPIA compliance that is legally aligned with the official regulations,
it is vital to follow a structured engagement based on POPICheck’s industry-standard
questions. This input makes it possible to measure an organization’s current
compliance status quickly and accurately, and then prescribe the appropriate remediation
required to achieve full compliance. Businesses are then able to plan
effectively and realistically, as well as manage capacity and resources, with a
view to achieving full legal compliance as quickly as possible.
POPICheck covers assessments over several critical areas, namely: Policy
and Strategy, Lifecycle and Process, Security, and People.
Each section encompasses specific questions, each with five predefined answers. Answers are
weighted and produce an overall POPIA-readiness score per area. They are then
combined to produce an overall Organizational Readiness score for the active assessment.
Based on the answers provided, the tool proposes a series of corrective actions
for each area, and an overall recommendation for the steps and remediations required
for the organization to achieve compliance. This guide is also available in report
format at any point during the assessment.
Stakeholders are able to track their POPIA-compliance progress by
updating answers as items are resolved. This will, in turn, dynamically update
the overall scoring, allowing the project or change manager to gauge progress
across the entire company, as well as at a more granular regional, subsidiary
and departmental level.
As a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tool, POPICheck does not require
upfront infrastructure or skills investments, is fast and easy-to-use, and was
developed in conjunction with a reputed legal company.
First Digital offers a variation of POPICheck, called ReadinessPoint, which ships with other pre-built assessment modules such as: COVID-19 Workplace Readiness; Cloud Readiness; SharePoint On Premise to Cloud Migration Readiness; O365; Biztalk and Integration Readiness. ReadinessPoint also features a Module Creator Wizard, allowing users to create their own custom assessment modules within the tool quickly and easily.