Understanding NIST Privacy Controls

The NIST privacy controls offer an organized approach with which companies could address privacy risks in their collection, usage, and sharing of personal data. These are controls that allow U.S.based business organizations to establish the interdependence of privacy practices with operational and legal expectations without the use of hard and fast compliance checklists. NIST privacy controls can be used to facilitate responsible data management through the entire data lifecycle by addressing the governance, processing of data, communication, and protection. They help organizations to make privacy policies actionable in the form of measurable and enhanced safeguards. In the case of SaaS corporations and technology-based enterprises, such controls are compatible with the current cybersecurity initiatives. NIST privacy controls are also simpler to adopt, observe, and expand when they are backed by privacy compliance automation, that is, assisting companies in building trust and minimizing risk associated with privacy concerns.