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CIPM - Certified Information Privacy Manager
Structured data protection programs are not a nice-to-have – they are a strategic necessity. Integrating privacy requirements into business processes early reduces risks, builds trust, and establishes a sustainable compliance foundation.
Key topics
- Developing, managing, and improving data protection management programs
- Integrating privacy requirements into business processes and systems
- Designing governance structures, roles, and responsibilities for data protection
- Assessing risks, maintaining controls, and continuously improving data protection measures
- Embedding data protection in digital and AI-supported environments
Prerequisite
Knowledge of business operations, compliance topics, or data protection law is helpful – no deep technical background is required.
Target group
Everyone with responsibility for data protection, compliance, or governance – in IT, legal, HR, marketing, or executive management.
Professional data protection management ensures legal certainty, strengthens the confidence of internal and external stakeholders, and prepares organizations for the future.
Course content
Foundations of data protection management
- Clarifying responsibilities in data protection program management and understanding the importance of accountability in this context.
Governance structures for data protection programs
- Building and managing data protection programs: organizational function, role of the DPO, program scope and strategy, and ongoing engagement of key functions and privacy policies.
Legal framework and compliance requirements
- Understanding the data protection regulatory landscape, cross-border requirements, and applying practical approaches to ensuring ongoing compliance.
Data inventories, gap analyses, and privacy audits
- Practical methods for creating data inventories and mapping, conducting gap analyses, privacy audits, impact assessments, and evaluating data processors.
Developing and implementing privacy policies
- Understanding key data protection guidelines, their structure, and developing practical approaches for implementation and maintenance.
Communicating and ensuring data subject rights
- Effectively communicating and operationally ensuring data subject rights: privacy notices, consent and withdrawal, restriction, correction, data portability, and erasure.
Data protection training and awareness
- Designing effective data protection training programs and developing organizational measures to promote broad data protection awareness.
Privacy by design: protecting personal data technically
- Comprehensive technical and organizational approaches to protecting personal data – with a focus on the privacy-by-design principle.
Data protection incidents: planning and response
- Structured approach to preparing for data protection incidents and implementing effective responses to breaches.
Monitoring and managing data protection programs
- Applying core methods and metrics for monitoring the effectiveness and performance of a data protection management program.
What the (Remote) WalkIn® course package includes:
- (Remote) WalkIn® training with a certified mentor.
- CIPM self-paced online course: videos, interactive exercises, and exam questions.
- Access to the New Horizons MS Teams learning forum throughout training.
- Exam voucher for the in-house test center.
- Digital seminar materials as an e-book.
Up to 100% funding for your continuing education
Attractive funding opportunities are available for numerous continuing education programs – depending on the funding program, up to 100% funding is possible.
The requirement is that you live or work in Germany. Our funding opportunities are not available outside of Germany.
Funding opportunities are available for career starters, job seekers, career changers, startups, experienced professionals, those seeking career advancement, and specialists.
