GDPR complianceGet GDPR compliant without building a privacy team first.
GDPR applies to any company that offers services to people in the EU or monitors their behavior there, wherever it is based. A dedicated SecureSlate compliance lead maps your personal data, builds your records of processing, runs DPIAs, and puts processor agreements in place, while our compliance automation platform keeps the security evidence current. One fixed price covers the work.
GDPR Chapters II to V: 46 articles, 7 Principles, 12 Rights of the data subject, 20 Controller and processor, 7 International transfers. 3 highlighted: Evidenced by included security scanning.
Evidenced by included security scanningScoped with your compliance lead
- Maximum fine
- Up to €20 million or 4% of global turnover
- Breach notification
- 72 hours to the supervisory authority
- Applies to
- Organizations in the EU or serving people there
The standard
GDPR compliance is accountability you can demonstrate, not a badge on your website.
The GDPR is an EU regulation with reach far beyond the EU. It sets principles for how personal data is handled and requires you to show, on request, how you meet them.
Principles, rights, and obligations
Chapter II sets the principles and lawful bases, Chapter III the rights of data subjects, Chapter IV the obligations of controllers and processors, and Chapter V the rules for transfers outside the EU. Most of a company's work sits in those four chapters.
Accountability means records
Article 5(2) makes you responsible for demonstrating compliance. In practice that means records of processing activities, DPIAs where processing is high risk, processor agreements, and documented decisions an authority or customer can review.
Controller or processor changes the obligations
Controllers decide why and how personal data is processed. Processors act on their instructions, which describes most B2B SaaS handling customer data. Both carry security and breach duties, and processing on someone's behalf needs a written agreement under Article 28.
How it works
We build your GDPR program so privacy stops blocking deals.
Four stages from the scoping call to a program you can demonstrate, with a named compliance lead accountable at every one.
Map personal data and your role
We trace what personal data you collect, why, where it is stored, who it is shared with, and where it leaves the EU, and decide whether you act as controller, processor, or both for each activity.
Build the accountability records
Your compliance lead writes records of processing activities, documents a lawful basis for each purpose, and runs data protection impact assessments where processing is likely to be high risk.
Put rights, contracts, and security in place
Data subject request handling, privacy notices, processor and subprocessor agreements, transfer mechanisms such as standard contractual clauses, and the technical and organizational measures Article 32 expects.
Keep it current as your product changes
New features, vendors, and markets change your processing. We update records and DPIAs as they do, rehearse breach response against the 72-hour clock, and extend the program into ISO 27001 or ISO 27701 when buyers want independent proof.
What is included
Everything a GDPR review asks for, prepared before they ask.
GDPR compliance software and the expert who runs it arrive together under one fixed price, so privacy work does not land on your engineers.
A dedicated compliance lead
One experienced practitioner owns your GDPR program end to end. They map personal data, write the records and DPIAs, answer the privacy sections of customer questionnaires, and keep the documentation current, so your team approves instead of interpreting the regulation.
Records of processing and DPIAs
Records of processing activities under Article 30 and data protection impact assessments under Article 35, drafted by us, approved by you, and updated as your processing changes.
Processor agreements and subprocessors
Article 28 agreements with your customers and your own subprocessors, vendor due diligence, and a current subprocessor list, so a new tool never starts processing personal data unreviewed.
Evidence from the stack you already run
Connect your cloud provider, identity provider, code host, and devices once. Access, encryption, and logging settings are tested continuously, which is the security of processing evidence Article 32 calls for.
Training and access reviews
Privacy and security awareness training, access reviews for systems holding personal data, and device checks run on a schedule and are tracked for you, with evidence you can show.
A Trust Center for privacy questions
Publish your privacy notice, subprocessor list, and security posture on a live page, so customers answer their GDPR due diligence questions before they send a questionnaire.
Article 32 evidence
Several GDPR requirements need evidence from your code and cloud, not a policy.
Security of processing and data protection by design are judged against what actually runs. Security scanning is part of the engagement, so the evidence comes from your real repositories, domains, and cloud accounts.
Art. 25(1), Art. 32(1)(d)
Code security scanning
Repositories scanned for vulnerable code, with findings ranked by severity and traced to the line, showing data protection is built into development and security is tested regularly.
Art. 32(1)(b)
Secrets detection
API keys, tokens, and credentials committed to source code, found and pinpointed to the file and line, so access to systems holding personal data stays confidential.
Art. 32(1)(d)
Dependency and license risk
An SBOM for every repository, with vulnerable open source components flagged, so the software that processes personal data is assessed on a regular basis.
Art. 32(1)(d)
Public surface monitoring
Your domains and forgotten subdomains scanned on a schedule and when you ship, with each finding explained and a fix recommended, as a record of regular security testing.
Art. 32(1)(b), Art. 33
Dark web monitoring
Company email addresses checked against known breach data, so exposed credentials are found early and assessed against your 72-hour breach notification process.
Art. 32(1)(a), Art. 32(1)(b)
Cloud misconfiguration checks
AWS, Azure, and GCP configurations checked through read-only access for risky settings in encryption, access, logging, and networking where personal data is stored.
Beyond GDPR
One program, several frameworks.
GDPR work overlaps with the standards privacy-conscious buyers ask for next, so each new framework extends the program instead of starting a new one.
ISO 27001
The certificate European buyers expect. It gives Article 32 security a management system and an independent audit behind it.
ISO 27701
A privacy information management standard that maps closely onto GDPR, for buyers who want certified assurance on how you manage privacy.
SOC 2
US buyers ask for a SOC 2 report, and its Privacy and Confidentiality criteria reuse much of your GDPR work.
CCPA
California's privacy law shares the GDPR's rights-based approach, with its own definitions, opt-outs, and notice requirements.
HIPAA
Health data about people in the EU is special category data under GDPR, and in the US the same data may also be PHI under HIPAA.
NIS 2 and DORA
EU security laws for essential entities and financial services, which add their own incident reporting and third-party risk requirements alongside GDPR.
Customer results
GDPR results from SecureSlate customers
Teams expanding in Europe that needed privacy to stop blocking partner and enterprise deals.
3 months
Muse reached GDPR compliance across its European markets, with compliance tasks down from days to hours
2×
Faster audit readiness for a tech service provider running ISO 27001 and GDPR together
We needed GDPR to scale across Europe without burning the product team. SecureSlate cut compliance turnaround from days to hours, and privacy stopped blocking deals.
Johnathon Founder at Muse
Resources
Read up before your scoping call.
Practical guides to GDPR, from who it applies to what a compliant program includes.
FAQs
What teams ask before starting GDPR compliance.
Yes, if you offer goods or services to people in the EU or monitor their behavior there, even without an EU office. Non-EU companies in that position usually also need to appoint a representative in the EU under Article 27.
Article 42 allows approved certification schemes, but few exist and most buyers do not ask for one. Companies usually demonstrate GDPR compliance through records of processing, DPIAs, and processor agreements, often backed by an ISO 27001 or ISO 27701 certificate for the security and privacy management behind them.
If you decide why and how personal data is processed, you are a controller for that processing. If you process it on a customer's behalf and instructions, as most B2B SaaS does with customer data, you are a processor. Many companies are both, for different data.
Only in some cases: public authorities, and organizations whose core activities involve large-scale, regular, and systematic monitoring of individuals or large-scale processing of special category data. Many companies appoint a privacy lead anyway, and your compliance lead helps decide whether a formal DPO is required.
A data protection impact assessment is required before processing that is likely to result in a high risk to individuals, such as large-scale monitoring or new technologies applied to sensitive data. It describes the processing, assesses necessity and risk, and records the measures that reduce it.
Controllers must notify the supervisory authority within 72 hours of becoming aware of a breach that is likely to put individuals at risk, and inform affected individuals without undue delay when the risk is high. Processors must notify their controllers without undue delay.
It depends on how much personal data you process and how many systems and vendors touch it. Data mapping and the records of processing usually take the most time, and your scoping call gives you a dated plan. Muse, for example, reached GDPR compliance across its markets in three months.
One fixed price agreed before work starts, covering the platform, the expert work, and the security scanning. If you later add an independent ISO 27001 or ISO 27701 audit, the certification body's fee is paid to them directly, and we give you a realistic range for it up front.
The UK has its own version, the UK GDPR, alongside the Data Protection Act 2018. Its obligations are very close to the EU GDPR, so one program usually covers both, with UK-specific transfer mechanisms and representative requirements added where needed.
Compliance software gives you templates, integrations, and a dashboard, but your team still runs the program. A consultant brings the expertise, but evidence often stays manual once the engagement ends. SecureSlate combines both: a dedicated compliance lead who does the work on a compliance automation platform, with security scanning inside the same fixed price.
Find out what your GDPR program will take
Bring the personal data you process and the buyer asking about it. You will leave the call with a gap summary, a timeline, and a fixed price, whether or not you work with us.
