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Data Protection Consultancy

If any of this sounds familiar, you're not alone:

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"I'm worried about breaching the PDPA, being fined, and suffering reputational damage like others have."

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"My customers now want me to demonstrate sound data protection practices before they'll do business with me."

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"How do I stay compliant with limited manpower to manage it?"

These are the concerns we hear most often from organisations on PDPA. If they sound like yours, our data protection consultants are happy to start with a no-obligation discussion on how to comply effectively — without it becoming a full-time burden on your team.

Why this team

Our data protection practice sits alongside our internal audit and cybersecurity specialists, not apart from them. The gaps that actually cause PDPA breaches are rarely about missing policy documents — they're things like excessive user access rights, weak IT security, inadequate segregation of duties, or a lack of review over how data is handled. Spotting and fixing those is internal-audit and cybersecurity work as much as it is protection work.

Our consultancy services

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Outsourced Data Protection Officer (DPO)

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Formulation of PDPA Policies and Procedures

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Employee Training on PDPA

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Monitoring of Compliance with PDPA

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Advisory for Data Protection Certifications (e.g. DPTM)

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Gap Analysis and Process Audits on PDPA

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Cybersecurity Checks

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Data Breach Management

Pursuing the Data Protection Trustmark? Helping organisations achieve DPTM certification is one of our most requested engagements — see our dedicated DPTM Consultancy page for the full certification journey and grant support.

Our Data Protection clients

We've supported organisations across many industries with their PDPA and data protection needs. See who we've worked with.

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Common Questions

Frequently asked questions on Data Protection

Do we need to appoint a Data Protection Officer?

Under the PDPA 2012, organisations must designate at least one individual as DPO to oversee data protection responsibilities and ensure PDPA compliance. This can be a dedicated role or added to an existing one, and certain responsibilities may be delegated. Organisations with limited manpower may outsource the operational aspects of the DPO function to a service provider — though overall responsibility remains with management.

What's at stake if we get it wrong?

A PDPC investigation can run up to 18 months and be costly to manage. The PDPC may impose a financial penalty of up to S$1 million or 10% of the organisation's annual turnover in Singapore, whichever is higher, and organisations found in breach may be named publicly.

Is certification (like DPTM) worth pursuing?

Increasingly, customers and tender issuers want vendors to demonstrate robust data protection practices before transacting with them. A recognised certification — the Data Protection Trustmark, now part of the national Singapore Standards framework (SS 714) — is the clearest way to show this. Government grant support may be available for eligible organisations pursuing certification — we can advise on current eligibility.

Let's talk about your risk and compliance priorities.

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