QUALITY ASSURANCE & RISK MANAGEMENT 

Are your privacy and information data security practices up to date?

ADIA's commitment to ensuring members remain informed and protected to provide clients with the highest quality assurance and risk mitigation continues. 

With the launch of "Operation Hurricane" - a global hunt to identify the hackers behind the massive Optus data breach - there's never been a better time to revisit your company's internal information and data security practices.

Being a member of ADIA ensures that you and your team can access a range of industry experts and resources to avoid a data security crisis or lend support in the event of a cyber-attack and notifiable data breach.

ADIA offers the following exclusive member services:  

• The Privacy (Market and Social Research) Privacy Code 2021 – working under Australia's only registered APP industry privacy code provides protection, expert advice, resources and reporting procedures. 
• Information and Data Security education and training – The ADIA Academy is free to members and offers a wide range of online, on-demand training courses and company-specific reporting services.
• Certification services – Subsidised, industry-trained ISO certification suppliers to help members on their journey to global accreditation under the Market, Opinion and Social Research Standard ISO 20252:2019, the ADIA Information and Data Security Compliance System and ISO 27001. 
• The ADIA Trust Mark – ADIA's gold standard compliance mark is an assurance for any business and government decision-maker that they are buying research that is quality-tested and meets not only ethical standards but also goes over and above minimal privacy legislation.
• The Trust Mark is eligible for member companies that adhere to the following compliance framework:
  • The Privacy (Market and Social Research) Code 2021
  • ISO 20252:2019 certification (or QPR for smaller companies)
  • Adherence to the Industry Code of Ethics 

To ensure you are doing your best to mitigate risk and protect your clients, the public and your company's reputation, we also recommend checking your contractual agreements with external suppliers. It's imperative that they, too, have appropriate and robust privacy, security and data storage practices in place. Please take a look at the additional resources here.

With the federal government likely to introduce larger fines for future breaches and overhaul the nation's data retention laws, it's crucial that members continue to review company practices to safeguard personal data and that we work together to maintain our industry's integrity. 

ADIA is here to help. 

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