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Privacy Impact Assessment
Automation

Automate your DPIAs with quantitative risk scoring, guided workflows, and audit-ready reports. Replace spreadsheets with a structured, defensible privacy risk assessment process.

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The Problem with Manual DPIAs

Privacy teams waste hundreds of hours on manual DPIA processes. Here's what automation fixes.

Manual Spreadsheet Chaos

Privacy teams spend weeks building and maintaining DPIA spreadsheets. Version conflicts, lost data, and inconsistent methodology make audit time a nightmare.

Too Slow for Business Velocity

New products and features launch faster than your privacy team can assess. Manual DPIAs create bottlenecks that slow down innovation.

Inconsistent Risk Scoring

Without standardized methodology, different team members assess the same risk differently. Regulators expect defensible, repeatable risk scoring.

No Audit Trail

Spreadsheets don't have immutable audit logs. When a regulator asks who assessed what and when, you need more than file modification dates.

How DPIA Automation Works in Unicis

From guided assessments to automated risk scoring — everything your privacy team needs to run DPIAs at scale.

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Guided 6-Step Assessment Workflow

Step-by-step wizard guides privacy professionals through every dimension of a DPIA: data processing details, confidentiality & integrity, availability, transparency & data minimization, results, and corrective measures.

Step 1 — Data Processing Details: document processing activity scope and context
Step 2 — Confidentiality & Integrity: assess risks to data confidentiality and accuracy
Step 3 — Availability: evaluate risks to data availability and accessibility
Step 4 — Transparency & Data Minimization: assess fairness and proportionality
Step 5 — Results: view auto-calculated risk scores across all dimensions
Step 6 — Corrective Measures: define actions to mitigate identified risks
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Quantitative Risk Matrix (Probability × Impact)

Move beyond subjective risk ratings. Our quantitative probability-impact matrix provides defensible, evidence-based risk scores that satisfy DPOs and regulators alike.

Probability scale: Rare → Unlikely → Possible → Probable → Severe
Impact scale: Insignificant → Minor → Moderate → Major → Extreme
Automatic risk calculation: Probability × Impact = Risk Score
Four risk levels: Low (1–3), Medium (4–9), High (10–16), Extreme (20–25)
Color-coded risk indicators for instant visual assessment
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Automated RoPA Integration

When a processing activity in your Record of Processing Activities triggers a DPIA requirement, the system automatically prompts an assessment. No manual handoff, no missed DPIAs.

Automatically triggered from RoPA when high-risk processing is detected
Seamless data flow: RoPA context pre-populates the DPIA
DPO notification and assignment automation
Track DPIA status across all processing activities
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Audit-Ready Reporting

Generate comprehensive DPIA reports at the click of a button. Every assessment includes full audit trails, risk matrices, and corrective action plans — ready for regulatory review.

One-click DPIA report generation
Immutable audit log: Created, Updated, Deleted events per assessment
Risk matrix visualization included in reports
Export to PDF for regulator submission
Full evidence trail linked to corrective measures

Part of the Unicis Privacy Suite

Privacy Impact Assessment is one module in Unicis Platform. Combine it with RoPA, TIA, and processor management for complete privacy compliance automation.

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Automate your privacy impact assessments today

Stop managing DPIAs in spreadsheets. Get structured, quantitative, audit-ready privacy risk assessments — starting on the Premium plan.

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