About

Company name: International Data Flows

Founded in 2022

Location: Scotland, UK

Web address: https://internationaldataflows.com/

Tool name:  OBASHI

What data protection problem(s) your tool addresses?

Clarity & Context:

-         OBASHI creates the holistic big picture of your privacy environment

-         OBASHI builds a dynamic model and acts as a privacy knowledge base

-         OBASHI is a Privacy Engineering design tool enabling you to capture the current state and design the future state of an organisation

Inventory & Flow:

-         OBASHI is a common language that puts stakeholders, business processes and technology assets in context

-         OBASHI maps asset and data inventories, flows and classification, including who owns or utilises the data at any particular stage in its journey

-         OBASHI provides the framework to develop and maintain a Record of Processing Activities (RoPA)

-         OBASHI acts as a “record of authority” of the systems that support processing of personal information within the organisation

Analysis & Assessments:

-         OBASHI provides a contextual model to identify and analyse: PI, roles, risks, systems, products, services, data actions, geographic location, internal, cloud, third parties

-         OBASHI provides a contextual model to identify the privacy risks for Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs)

-         OBASHI provides a contextual model to identify the data protection risks for Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs)

-         Privacy Threshold Analysis (PTAs) on systems, applications and processes

-         Informs the Development of a data governance strategy for personal information (collection, authorized use, access, destruction)

-         Informs the planning of an inquiry/complaint handling procedures (customers, regulators, etc.)

-         Informs the planning of an Ensure program flexibility in order to incorporate legislative/regulatory/market/business requirements

Link or attach reports, assessments, questionnaires, spreadsheets and any other documentation to the OBASHI model to build a contextual privacy knowledge base.

Are there any transfers of personal data outside EEA when using your tool? No

Short description of the tool:

OBASHI is a methodology and Digital-Aided Design (DAD) software tool that enables users to create a dynamic model of an organisation's connectivity and data flows. An OBASHI approach offers a clear view of stakeholder, business process and technology asset interoperability while also answering where the data is and what it is used for. 

OBASHI helps privacy professionals take an engineering approach that improves their business while addressing compliance challenges and associated legislative crosswalks.