What is Vortex?

Vortex consists of a suite of data services utilised to address the rapid convergence of data quality, data management, data policies, business process management and risk management, surrounding the handling of all data within an organisation.

These services consist of the following:

Data Employment Reviews encompassing Analysis and Transformation Biases
Data Governance Frameworks encompassing Business Analytics
Information Security Frameworks encompassing Architecture, Application, and Processing
Data Privacy Services encompassing Assessments and Privacy Officer Outsource

Data Employment And Transformation Bias Services

A workshop-type engagement where XContent engages customers in ascertaining:

Data processing profiles through ownership, purpose, and deployment.
Gain a qualified understanding of data business value quantitively and qualitatively.
Data transformation objectives to mitigate SQB and other inherent biases.
Data modeling and future state envisioning that meets executive objectives.

Data Governance Frameworks encompassing Business Analytics Services

Data governance describes an evolutionary process for a company, altering the company’s way of thinking and setting up the processes to handle information so that it may be utilised by the entire organisation.

Reviewing any current information governance and data management strategies.
Reviewing any existing data classifications.
Review existing data handling policies.
Develop information governance and data management strategies.
Developing initial data classification strategies.
Development or update of the data handling policies, procedures, and controls.
Reviewing compliance with data handling policies, procedures and controls against policies, best practices, or specific compliance frameworks.

Information Security Frameworks encompassing Architecture, Application, and Processing

Protecting the Right Assets from the Right Threats with the Right Measures

Information Security Risk Assessment: a process that identifies any threats, vulnerabilities, attacks, probabilities of occurrence and the most likely outcomes.
Information Security Strategy: a plan to mitigate risk, by combining technology, policies, procedures, and awareness into an ongoing Security Strategy that is continuously refined.
Security Controls Implementation: managed implementation of the security strategy that will enforce the required or appropriate response.
Security Testing: This is the measurement of the effectiveness of the security strategy and subsequent controls that have been implemented.
Information Security Architecture Framework: A top-level abstraction of how business requirements are translated to technical components that manage complexity.

Data Privacy Services encompassing Assessments and Privacy Officer Outsource

Assisting an organisation in achieving compliance with data privacy mandates and legislations.

Data Privacy Impact Assessments: Measuring the organisations POPIA compliance posture
Remediating identified gaps: Designing or executing mitigations to address compliance shortfalls
DPO Outsourcing: Implement the data protection framework as well as keep data protection policies and procedures up to date including the breach management policy
Advise directorate data controllers on the POPI Act requirements including on the Privacy and Electronic Communications regulations where appropriate.
Conduct frequent audits of data for compliance and maintain an internal register of Personal Data Processing projects and systems

Pricing Table

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PLANS EXCLUDE ANY LICENCING COSTS

Basic

700

Per Month

Monthly Report

Baseline Analysis

Documentation Review

Change Control

5 Base Analyst Hours

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Intermediate

1.4k

Per Month

Monthly Report

Baseline Analysis

Documentation Review

Change Control

10 Base Analyst Hours

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Advanced

2.1k

Per Month

Monthly Report

Baseline Analysis

Documentation Review

Change Control

25 Base Analyst Hours

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Custom

POA

Yearly Commitment

DPO Outsource

Data Processing Profiles, ownership, purpose and deployment

Custom Resource Configurations

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