Independent, evidence-based
GDPR and Data Protection Audit Services
An independent GDPR audit measures your organisation against the ICO's Audit Framework, area by area, and hands you the evidence, the gaps and a prioritised action plan to close them. Fixed fee from £2,950, delivered in-house by CyPro's data protection consultants.
Why now
The audit someone has asked you to pass
Most GDPR audits are commissioned because someone outside the business asked a question the team could not evidence: an enterprise customer's supplier questionnaire, an insurer wanting proof of your controls, a board member reading about a fine, or a complaint that has drawn the ICO's attention. An audit exists to answer those questions with evidence rather than assurances.
Because every finding is referenced to the ICO's Audit Framework, refreshed in 2024, the answers carry weight: not "we think we are compliant" but "here is the requirement, here is the evidence, and here is exactly where the gap sits".
You receive
- A risk-rated finding for every area assessed, with the evidence behind it
- Each finding mapped to the relevant part of the ICO Audit Framework
- A prioritised action plan: what to fix first, and why
- A management summary written for the board, not the IT team
- A clear view of where you meet the UK GDPR and where you fall short
- A debrief session where every finding can be challenged
Audit scope
What the GDPR audit examines
Six areas, each assessed with evidence against the ICO Audit Framework and the UK GDPR. The scope is confirmed for your organisation at the free scoping call.
Accountability and governance
Your record of processing activities, data protection policies, roles and responsibilities, and the documentation that proves you can stand behind your decisions. The evidence the ICO looks for first.
Lawful basis and transparency
Whether each processing activity has a valid lawful basis, how consent is captured and withdrawn where you rely on it, and whether your privacy notices tell people what the UK GDPR requires.
Individual rights and DSARs
How you find, log and answer subject access requests and the wider rights to erasure, rectification and objection, tested against the statutory deadlines rather than assumed to work.
Security of processing
The technical and organisational measures protecting personal data, reviewed against the standard the UK GDPR sets: access control, encryption, retention and disposal, and how you would evidence them under scrutiny.
Data sharing and processors
Contracts with the suppliers who process data on your behalf, the due diligence behind them, and how any international transfers are lawfully covered. The area most SMEs cannot fully evidence.
Breach management and training
Whether you could detect, record and report a personal data breach within the 72 hour window, and whether the people handling data have been trained to recognise one in the first place.
Quick answers
GDPR audit questions, answered
What framework do you audit against?
The ICO's Audit Framework, refreshed in 2024, which sets out what good data protection practice looks like across accountability, records management, security, individual rights, data sharing, breach management and training. Auditing against the same framework the regulator uses means the findings map directly to what the ICO would expect to see, rather than to a standard of our own invention.
Is this the same as being audited by the ICO?
No. This is an independent audit we carry out for you, using the ICO's published framework as the yardstick. It is voluntary, confidential and on your side: the point is to find and fix gaps before a regulator, an insurer or a customer's due diligence ever looks. Nothing is reported to the ICO.
What is the difference between a GDPR audit and a gap analysis?
A gap analysis is the lighter, faster entry point: it maps where you stand against the UK GDPR and gives you a costed plan to close the gaps. A full audit goes deeper, gathering evidence area by area against the ICO Audit Framework and producing a formal, defensible report. Many clients start with a gap analysis and commission the full audit once they know the shape of the work.
Do you fix what the audit finds?
The audit itself is independent: its job is a clear picture of where you stand and a prioritised plan, not a sales pitch for remediation. Where you want hands-on help closing the gaps, we scope that as a separate compliance project, so the review stays impartial and you decide what to act on.
Who carries out the audit?
CyPro's own data protection consultants, in-house, from the scoping call to the debrief. The work is not subcontracted, so the people who scope the audit are the people who run it and present the findings.
Evidence beats assurances
Scope your GDPR audit
A free 45 minute call, taken by a data protection consultant, establishes what the audit needs to cover, the fixed fee to run it and when you get the report and action plan.