Research, perspectives, and practical frameworks for the most overlooked part of vendor governance: what happens to your data when a vendor relationship ends.
Access, erasure, and deletion rights depend on systems that often sit outside the privacy team's control. The next privacy challenge is proving what happened to data after it moved through vendors, processors, and AI-enabled services.
Six domains for evaluating how defensibly your organization governs, triggers, executes, and evidences vendor data deletion. The standard behind the Fimi platform and the readiness assessment.
Ten minutes, six domains, one score. Work through the same questions Fimi uses to assess a program and see where your gaps are before an auditor does.
Existing tools help teams assess, monitor, and document vendor risk. Most stop before the final question is answered: what happened to the data when the relationship ended?
Auditors are increasingly asking how organizations verify vendor data deletion. The hard part is turning a contractual promise into evidence that can stand up to review.
When auditors assess vendor data handling, they are not asking whether you have a policy. They are asking whether you can show what happened.
The right to erasure becomes operationally difficult when personal data lives across current vendors, former vendors, subprocessors, backups, and retained archives.
Static attestations can be useful, but they rarely show the work behind deletion: scope, systems, exceptions, dates, approvals, and evidence trails.
Vendor risk programs often measure controls, reviews, and questionnaires long after the underlying data exposure has moved somewhere harder to see.
See how Fimi Data turns vendor data deletion obligations into defensible evidence.
