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Prove you protect EU personal data, before a regulator asks

The GDPR applies to any organization that handles the personal data of people in the EU, wherever that organization sits. Enforcement is no longer theoretical: regulators have issued more than seven billion euros in fines, and the pace is accelerating, with more penalties in the last three years than in the five before them combined.

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The landscape

The rules reach further than most teams realize

The GDPR governs how personal data is collected, used, secured, and transferred, and it reaches any company anywhere that offers goods or services to people in the EU or monitors their behavior. Around it sit the ePrivacy rules, the standard contractual clauses that govern data leaving the EU, mandatory data protection impact assessments for higher-risk processing, and newer security obligations under NIS2. Twenty-seven national regulators enforce it, each able to act on its own.

GDPR UK GDPR ePrivacy DPIA SCCs ISO 27701 NIS2 Records of Processing
€7B+
in GDPR fines issued since 2018, across more than 2,500 penalties, with roughly 1.2 billion euros of it in the last year alone. The single largest fine to date is 1.2 billion euros.

The most common trigger for a fine is not a dramatic breach, it is unlawful processing: using data without a valid legal basis. That makes GDPR a question of documented, defensible practice every day, not just incident response after something has already gone wrong.

Why it is hard

Personal data does not stay in one place

Personal data spreads across marketing tools, product databases, support systems, analytics, and a long list of processors and sub-processors, and every one of them is in scope. A single obligation, say the right to erasure or a records-of-processing entry, has to be answered consistently everywhere the data lives, and proven to a regulator on request.

Managed in spreadsheets and email, that becomes stale records, unmapped vendors, and impact assessments no one can find when a supervisory authority comes asking. The framework rewards organizations that can show their work, and punishes the ones that cannot.

How SimpleRisk fits

One control library, every obligation

SimpleRisk treats data protection the way it should be treated: as one connected set of controls, mapped once and proven to whichever regulator, customer, or auditor is asking.

  • Map once, satisfy many. Through the Secure Controls Framework, one control maps across GDPR, ISO 27701, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and 250-plus frameworks, so you implement once and satisfy many at the same time.
  • Keep assessments and records current. Run data protection impact assessments and maintain records of processing as living documents, ready to produce rather than reconstruct.
  • Govern every processor. Track third-party and vendor risk against the same controls, so a sub-processor is not the gap a regulator finds first.
  • Prove it on demand. Define tests, run audits, and produce exactly the evidence a supervisory authority expects, with a clear legal basis attached.
Compliance in SimpleRisk → Risk Management → Secure Controls Framework →

Turn GDPR from a liability into evidence you can show

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