Privacy Compliance Advisory Services
Personal information moves through your organization every day, from customer records and employee files to vendor platforms and business applications. Understanding what you collect, where it goes, and how it is protected is essential to managing privacy obligations.
LBMC helps organizations assess privacy readiness, identify gaps, and strengthen the processes that support responsible data handling. Our cybersecurity advisors provide practical guidance on CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and applicable state privacy requirements, connecting compliance priorities with your systems, people, and business operations.
Not Sure Where to Start With Privacy Compliance?
New requirements, changing data practices, or customer questions can expose gaps in your privacy program. Talk with LBMC about your current environment and where an assessment could help clarify your next steps.
How LBMC Helps Strengthen Privacy Compliance
Privacy requirements affect more than policies. Your organization needs a clear understanding of its data, accountable process owners, and controls that work across departments and third parties.
LBMC helps assess your current approach and identify practical improvements based on your privacy obligations and operational priorities.
CCPA and CPRA Readiness
Understand how your organization’s handling of personal information affects its California privacy readiness. LBMC helps evaluate data practices, supporting documentation, and operational gaps so your team can prioritize preparation.
Areas of focus may include:
- Personal information inventories and data flows
- Employee and customer data handling
- Privacy request procedures and retention practices
- Third-party access to personal information
- Preparation for applicable privacy risk assessment and cybersecurity audit requirements
GDPR Applicability and Readiness
LBMC helps organizations evaluate their potential GDPR obligations and understand how personal data moves through their operations. Our team assesses readiness, identifies gaps, and develops action items aligned with your organization’s role and data processing activities.
Support includes:
- Applicability analysis and stakeholder interviews
- Evaluation of controller and processor roles
- Review of data flows and current privacy practices
- Identification of gaps in supporting policies, processes, and controls
- A prioritized plan for addressing readiness findings
Building your team’s privacy expertise? LBMC’s GDPR – Certified Data Protection Officer training helps professionals prepare to manage and monitor a GDPR compliance program.
Review your incident preparation with LBMC’s GDPR Breach Notification Checklist.
Data Inventory, Mapping and Classification
A privacy program starts with knowing what information you have. LBMC helps identify personal and sensitive information, document how it moves across systems and vendors, and evaluate how it is classified and protected.
This work gives your team a clearer foundation for decisions about access, retention, data sharing, and security controls.
Privacy Governance and Gap Assessments
Privacy responsibilities often span legal, HR, IT, security, and business operations. LBMC helps evaluate how those responsibilities are assigned and how consistently privacy processes are carried out.
We assess existing practices, identify control and documentation gaps, and help prioritize improvements your team can put into action.
What to Expect From a Privacy Readiness Assessment
The scope begins with your business, the information you handle, and the questions your team needs to answer.
- Define the scope. Identify the relevant business activities, systems, stakeholders, and privacy requirements.
- Review current practices. Examine data flows, documentation, and controls through interviews and supporting evidence.
- Identify gaps. Evaluate where current practices need stronger processes, clearer ownership, or better documentation.
- Prioritize next steps. Develop practical recommendations to guide remediation and future preparation.
Cybersecurity Insights — Delivered to Your Inbox
Stay informed on emerging threats, evolving compliance requirements, and practical strategies to strengthen your organization’s security posture.
What you’ll receive:
- Cybersecurity trends, threats, and risk insights
- Compliance updates across frameworks like HITRUST, CMMC, SOC, and NIST
- Practical guidance from LBMC cybersecurity advisors
- Invitations to webinars, events, and new resources
Privacy Compliance Insights and Resources
CCPA and CPRA Risk Assessments
Tennessee Information Protection Act: Compliance Basics
Data Governance: What Businesses Need to Know
Industries We Serve
Our cybersecurity advisory team works with organizations across industries to address security risks, compliance requirements, and operational challenges. We help clients strengthen controls, reduce exposure, and align security efforts with business priorities. Whether you’re responding to new regulations, supporting growth, or improving security maturity, our team provides clear guidance grounded in real-world experience.
All Industries We Support
Local Expertise, Wherever You Are
With offices in Chattanooga, Memphis, Louisville, Nashville, Knoxville, Philadelphia, and Charlotte, plus remote offices, LBMC partners with businesses across the region and beyond.
Privacy Compliance Leadership
Meet the LBMC cybersecurity leader who helps organizations assess privacy risks, strengthen data governance, and prepare for evolving compliance expectations.
Shareholder, Cybersecurity
Van Steel, CISA, CISSP, CCSFP, leads LBMC’s cybersecurity consulting service line, driving national cyber risk assessment leadership.
Where Are the Gaps in Your Privacy Program?
If your team is evaluating CCPA/CPRA or GDPR readiness, LBMC can help assess your current data practices and identify priorities. Tell us which requirements or operational challenges prompted your inquiry so we can connect you with the right privacy advisor.