What happens the moment your organisation discovers a data breach, does your team know exactly what to do, or is it improvising? The Arab British Fellowship Training Academy built the Managing Data Risk, Privacy and Compliance course to answer that question before it becomes urgent.

The programme works backwards from real operational needs. Participants first look at how data governance frameworks translate into day-to-day policy, then move into the compliance landscape, GDPR, CCPA, and the wider set of laws that shape how information can be collected, used, and stored. Risk assessment and data classification are treated together, since one drives the other: you cannot manage what you have not properly classified.

Later sessions cover building compliance management systems, writing enforceable privacy policies, and, critically, running an incident response when something does go wrong. Attendees also work through international standards such as ISACA and ISO 8000 for data management.

This course is built for anyone who carries responsibility, formally or informally, for how their organisation handles sensitive data and stays on the right side of the law.

Who Should Attend

• Data protection officers and compliance teams who carry day-to-day legal responsibility.
• IT security managers governing how organisational data is stored and accessed.
• Legal and regulatory professionals interpreting data legislation for the business.
• Risk management specialists focused on security protocols and controls.
• Executives and managers whose decisions depend on data and its governance.

What You Will Gain

• A working grasp of data governance frameworks and the policies that make them stick inside an organisation.
• Fluency in major global data protection laws, GDPR, CCPA, and comparable regimes, and what they require in practice.
• The ability to assess data security risk and translate that assessment into a concrete risk management plan.
• Practical skills in data classification and lifecycle management, covering everything from creation to secure disposal.
• The know-how to build compliance management systems and privacy policies that function together, not as separate exercises.
• Confidence to lead incident response and breach management, including notification duties and recovery steps.
• Exposure to international best practices, ISACA, ISO 8000, for setting up and running a data governance project, roles included.

Module 1: The Business Case for Data Governance

• What organisations actually lose when governance is missing
• Defining data governance and its key components
• How governance policy shapes daily operations

Module 2: Data Risk and Classification Together

• Identifying potential data security threats
• Classification principles that make risk assessment possible
• Linking classification to lifecycle decisions: storage, retention, disposal

Module 3: The Global Compliance Landscape

• GDPR, CCPA, and other major regulatory regimes
• Legal and ethical dimensions of data protection
• Turning regulatory text into internal compliance requirements

Module 4: Designing Risk Mitigation Strategies

• Building a risk assessment framework for data assets
• Prioritising threats by likelihood and impact
• Embedding mitigation into everyday data handling

Module 5: Compliance Management Systems

• Structuring a system that stands up to audit
• Monitoring compliance policies over time
• The compliance officer's role in governance

Module 6: Privacy Policy and Data Confidentiality

• Drafting privacy policies that are actually enforced
• Protecting user confidentiality in practice
• Running privacy impact assessments

Module 7: Incident Response and Breach Recovery

• Preparing for breaches before they occur
• Executing the incident response plan
• Recovery and mitigation once the breach is contained