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Program audit

Identify gaps before they become risks.

Assess program components and integration across teams.

Implement practical remediation strategies.

Confirm policies and processes meet regulatory, legal, and operational requirements.

White Paper

Developing a Data Retention Policy to Meet Privacy Data Minimization Requirements

Recorded Webinar

Using M365 to Create a Personal Data Inventory

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Should You Combine Your Privacy and Records Management Programs?

How we help

Regular audits of user and system adherence to established policies and processes are essential to sustain compliance and identify program gaps before they become risks. Audit findings inform a continuous improvement cycle, prompting timely updates to policies, procedures, and controls and the prompt remediation of identified weaknesses.

We design and execute comprehensive audits across records management, privacy, legal hold, and related governance functions.

Explore our program audit services

Program Audit

Keep programs compliant and defensible with ongoing audits.

If you’ve been asking yourself…

“Is our incident response program up to date to reflect privacy requirements? Are we up to date on all the reporting requirements in the event of a breach?”

“Has our records retention schedule been updated to reflect the retention of personal information? Have we documented the legitimate business need for retaining this information?”

“Have we updated our privacy policies to reflect updated privacy requirements? Have any new privacy rules been enacted? Are we operating in any new countries with either existing or new privacy rules?

“Are we receiving or creating any new types of records? Does our schedule contain any old records that we are no longer creating and have expired?”

…you’ve come to the right place.

Learn more about our services and explore related resources below.

Related resources

Recorded Webinar

Creating a Modern, Compliant, and Easier-to-Execute Records Retention Schedule for Privacy and AI

A well-designed schedule not only ensures regulatory compliance but also fosters collaboration with business units, reduces conflicts, and supports automation of classification and disposition processes.

Recorded Webinar

Information Governance 101

Gain an overview of the essential building blocks of an effective program including records and data retention, privacy and data minimization, and the role of technology, processes, and training in making governance sustainable.

Recorded Webinar

Using M365 to Create a Personal Data Inventory

Rather than investing in expensive and complex tools, organizations can take a more practical, scalable, and compliant approach by leveraging Microsoft 365 to manage personal data inventories more effectively.

What We Do

Our program audit services

Regular examination of how well users and systems conform to and comply with intended rules is important not only for ensuring that the approach is working, but also for providing program defensibility in the event it is challenged.

Our information governance program audits cover records management, privacy, legal hold, and other processes.

Program Audit

We design and execute comprehensive audits across records management, privacy, legal hold, and related governance functions.

Our approach evaluates both individual program components and the integration and coordination across teams. We identify control gaps, recommend and help implement practical remediation strategies, and reassess enhanced processes to confirm they meet regulatory, legal, and operational requirements.

Audits should be an ongoing process to ensure continued compliance.

Connect with a member of the Contoural team to learn more about our information governance consulting services.

As an independent provider, Contoural does not sell or resell any products, take product referral fees, or provide discovery services such as matter-specific document identification, document collection, or document review. Our advice is based solely on the needs of our clients and is not driven by the sale of products.