ISO 27701 Transition case studies
ISO 27701 Transition · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The PECB Certified ISO/IEC 27701:2025 Transition credential is aimed at privacy and security professionals who already know ISO/IEC 27701:2019 and need to move to the 2025 revision. The associated training course explains the updated, added, and removed clauses and Annex A controls, the revised terminology, and the transformation of ISO/IEC 27701:2025 into a stand-alone management system standard. The ISO 27701 Transition case studies are 5 cases and about 3,688 words.
1Transition Audit Booked Against an Outdated Prerequisite
Northwind People Systems is a 900-person HR software vendor headquartered in Germany. It holds an ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certificate issued in 2022 that expires in ten months, and an ISO/IEC 27701:2019 certificate whose scope reads 'processing of employee data on behalf of EU clients'.
730 words, about 4 min2One PIMS, Two Roles: Collapsing Parallel Controller and Processor Manuals
Meridian Insights is a 300-person marketing-analytics firm. For forty retail clients it hosts and analyses customer purchase data as a processor; for its own website, event registrations and prospect database it is a controller.
742 words, about 4 min3Privacy Risk Folded Into a Security Register
CareWell Devices makes a diabetes management app used by 120,000 patients in four countries and also sells population insights. Its risk register was built for the ISO/IEC 27001 programme: each asset is scored likelihood times impact on a 5x5 matrix, and 'impact' is defined as cost to CareWell - regulatory fines, lost revenue, remediation effort.
730 words, about 4 min4Leadership, DPO Independence and Objectives That Cannot Be Measured
Halden Logistics has 2,400 staff across five countries and has been certified to ISO/IEC 27001 since 2021. Its DPO, appointed in 2022, reports to the Chief Marketing Officer, sits on the marketing leadership team and personally approves outbound campaign lists.
735 words, about 4 min5Misdirected Claim Files, a Late Notification and a Repeat Failure
Arclight Claims is a 700-person claims-processing BPO acting as a processor for six insurers. A scripted nightly SFTP job routes claim PDFs to client portals using a routing table.
751 words, about 4 min