This guide by Purple Dragon Cybersecurity breaks down all 99 GDPR articles, classifying each as required, optional, or non-operational. For every relevant article you get concrete guidance: what triggers compliance, what to document, what enterprise customers expect, and how to implement it in practice — from processing records and DSAR workflows to consent logging and international data transfers.
What's inside
- An article-by-article classification of the entire GDPR text — so you know what to act on first.
- For every required article: the trigger, the record to keep, the workflow to set up, the diligence question it answers.
- Templates and worked examples for ROPAs, DPIAs, DPAs, and transfer impact assessments.
- Specific guidance for enterprise sales conversations: what buyers ask, what your answer should sound like.
- Implementation notes calibrated for startup-sized teams — what to skip, what to defer, what to never skip.
Why we wrote it
GDPR is a long text written for organizations far larger than a fifteen-person startup. Reading it cover to cover doesn't tell you which articles will land on your weekly sprint board and which never will. This guide does the triage for you, then explains what operationalizing each item actually looks like in a small organization.
Download the guide, give it to your privacy, sales, and engineering leads, and use it as the spine of a six-week GDPR readiness sprint.
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