{"id":2628,"date":"2025-12-31T10:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:04:28","slug":"essential-standards-for-data-protection-certifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=2628","title":{"rendered":"Essential Standards for Data Protection Certifications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Data protection seals are an important tool for building trust among customers and partners.<br>For the awarding of data protection seals, it is particularly important to adhere to recognized standards to ensure they are credible, transparent, and meaningful. At a minimum, pay attention to these\u00a0<strong>six<\/strong>\u00a0standards:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li><strong>Criteria catalog&nbsp;<\/strong>based on established norms and standards (e.g., EU GDPR, TDDDG, state of the art, etc.).<\/li><li><strong>Publicly accessible criteria catalog<\/strong>&nbsp;that clearly outlines the assessment criteria. The catalog should be publicly available so that the requirements are transparent.<\/li><li><strong>Expert and recognized auditors<\/strong>: Evaluations for a data protection seal must be conducted by technical and legal experts who are recognized by an independent body. This ensures that the assessment is professionally sound and impartial.<\/li><li><strong>Certificates issued with detailed justification<\/strong>, including the scope of the certification and an explanation of why the seal was awarded.<\/li><li><strong>Publication of certificates<\/strong>: A credible seal makes its results traceable. The certificate should clearly state the system audited, the audit period, and the validity period.<\/li><li><strong>Separation of certification and consulting<\/strong>&nbsp;through the operation of an&nbsp;<strong>independent certification body<\/strong>&nbsp;that issues certificates without providing consulting services and also maintains a complaints office for potential grievances.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>These six standards apply not only to data protection seals but also to other certifications, such as those in IT security or compliance. Additionally, a seal should be recognized in the market.<br>Pay attention to these standards when selecting certifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data protection seals are an important tool for building trust among customers and partners.For the awarding of data protection seals, it is<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/?p=2628\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eprivacy.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}