Securing your business

Governance & compliance

Our experience in highly regulated markets makes us the ideal partner in protecting and retaining control of your data, and in remaining compliant with all necessary and evolving regulations.

Organisations thrive when they can collaborate freely with their suppliers, partners, and other stakeholders. This means sharing information while also maintaining control of your data in line with all relevant rules and regulations. This is essential to good governance and also ensures that you avoid penalties and compensation payments.

At Doherty Associates, we understand the specific demands that come with working in highly regulated environments and those where confidentiality is of utmost importance. We can also help you in deriving more value from your data, while keeping it secure.

If you’re interested to discover more, please contact us.

• Supporting good governance

  Good governance requires that an organisation’s information is used solely for the purposes intended, and only by the people authorised to have access to it. Yet a measure of flexibility is also needed to support effective day-to-day working. We can help you achieve this vital balance.

  The fact that ‘data’ includes highly sensitive content – such as HR disputes, financial information, and customer contact details – explains why it is protected by so many rules and regulations. And in some cases, additional requirements laid down by external stakeholders, such as the Financial Conduct Authority. This means that controlling how and where your data is used is an essential process.

  At Doherty Associates, we can help you define and apply the right policies to identify, monitor, and automatically protect sensitive items and ensure that the right people – and the right people only – have access to them. We can help with enforcing controls on what happens to data when it leaves your organisation using tools such as Data Loss Prevention. We can also make sure that in the event of a breach, the correct steps are taken to resolve the problem and mitigate future risk.

  Crucially, we can ensure you retain a much-needed measure of flexibility, enabling you to share data securely with partners outside of your organisation or across departments while still retaining full control. For example, you might block certain documents from being shared or use encryption so that only the intended recipients can read them.

  We can also help ensure that your policies keep pace with any relevant changes in the regulatory environment. And make it simple for you to demonstrate compliance to internal and external stakeholders, such as company boards and insurance companies.

• Gaining value from your data

  There are so many benefits to having data in the cloud. It enables us to access and share information more easily, to quickly find the documentation we are looking for, and to enjoy real-time collaboration with colleagues. It also makes it possible to integrate data and extract more value from it.

  At Doherty Associates, we have the experiences, the processes, and the insight to turn your data into valuable business intelligence.

  To find out more, please visit our Data & business intelligence page.