What Is the Gartner Privacy Score?

The Gartner Privacy Score is a strategic planning tool for privacy leaders and their leadership team that measures performance across five objectives and 21 discrete functional activities that comprehensively represent the scope of activities for a typical privacy function.

Gartner Functional Activity Map for Privacy

The Privacy Score can be used for:

Strategic and annual planning

Understand how well your function is performing in its current state.

Functional transformation

Support short- and long-term planning by clearly identifying next steps and associated resources.

Resource allocation

Ensure strategy and resources align with market opportunities and business needs.

How does the Privacy Score work?

Self-service launch

  • Initiate an assessment directly from the tool website.

  • Tailor the assessment scope by removing activities that fall outside your team’s direct responsibilities.

  • Invite participants to contribute to the assessment directly from the tool.

Easy monitoring

  • Fill out the questions on activity importance and maturity.

  • Monitor progress of invited participants.

  • Send reminders to complete the assessment to invited participants directly through the tool.

Quick reporting

  • Instantly generate a report to review maturity scores, key findings and recommendations.

  • Review results and discuss implications with a Gartner expert.

  • Build a plan of action to close gaps.

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What you get

Customized report

Gain a detailed and comprehensive picture of the functional maturity of your legal and compliance organization.

Expert guidance

Save time interpreting the report with a diagnostic results walk-through call with a Gartner expert to determine next steps for your organization.

Data-backed prioritization

Leverage fact-based prioritization guidance based on comparison between organizational maturity and importance.

Interactive results platform

Explore your results on the Gartner Assessment Platform to compare custom segments of your data (e.g., by business unit or geography).

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