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Baker Tilly Partners with CENTRL to Help Clients Enhance Privacy Compliance and Risk Management

CENTRL’s technology provides Baker Tilly clients with expanded data privacy oversight and regulatory compliance capabilities

CHICAGO (Nov. 19, 2019) – Leading advisory, tax and assurance firm Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP (Baker Tilly) announces a partnership with data privacy management software provider CENTRL. Leveraging CENTRL’s Privacy360 integrated privacy program management platform, Baker Tilly will deliver a powerful privacy compliance solution tailored to specific regulatory needs, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), to help clients track and manage privacy compliance, reduce ongoing operational burdens and build a solid foundation for responding to emerging privacy challenges.

“With the rise in privacy regulation and data protection policies evolving across the globe, organizations face more complex compliance, legal, financial, third party, reputational and activism risks,” Baker Tilly Principal – Cybersecurity and Privacy, David Ross said. “Our partnership with CENTRL helps us give our clients greater control and oversight of data privacy regulatory compliance requirements and supports a sound privacy management program that can address current and emerging risks now, for tomorrow.”

How organizations will benefit

Organizations taking advantage of Baker Tilly and CENTRL’s partnership will benefit from:

  • Scoping assessments – Assess data privacy practices across the organization against industry-specific and regulatory requirements
  • Data inventories – Conduct data inventorying, with automated production and management of data maps, business processes and data protection impact assessments
  • Individual rights management Monitor, triage, track and respond to individual rights requests with templates to support workflow, communication and management
  • Vendor management – Evaluate and track vendor relationships, processing activities and due diligence
  • Management of multiple regulations – Manage and monitor not just GDPR and CCPA, but the more than 20 additional pending state and international regulations through one partnership and platform

CENTRL’s founder and CEO Sanjeev Dheer said, “With the upcoming CCPA deadline in January 2020, companies are confronted with the challenge of establishing the processes and infrastructure for complying with the new law. We believe that the combination of CENTRL’s privacy management and vendor risk platform, combined with Baker Tilly’s deep privacy consulting expertise, provides a powerful compliance offering to companies.”

On Dec.10, Baker Tilly will be discussing privacy compliance in a complimentary webinar, Operationalizing data privacy: leading practices for regulatory compliance. Learn more about Baker Tilly’s privacy services at bakertilly.com/privacy.

About Baker Tilly US, LLP (bakertilly.com)

Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) is a leading advisory, tax and assurance firm whose specialized professionals guide clients through an ever-changing business world, helping them win now and anticipate tomorrow. Headquartered in Chicago, Baker Tilly, and its affiliated entities, have operations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Baker Tilly is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 145 territories, with 34,700 professionals. The combined worldwide revenue of independent member firms is $3.6 billion. Visit bakertilly.com or join the conversation on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter

About CENTRL

CENTRL is an enterprise-grade privacy management solution, and its Privacy360 is flexible and scalable for evolving global privacy management requirements, including compliance requirements for the GDPR, LGPD, CCPA, and future U.S. and international regulations. The CENTRL platform is flexible for companies of all sizes to get up and running with minimal configuration and implementation effort. CENTRL’s solution has a full suite of modules for privacy compliance, as well as other initiatives – data subject access requests, assessments, and data mapping - while including complete third party and vendor risk management capabilities – complementing an enterprise’s privacy management needs. For more information, please visit oncentrl.com.