Privacy Results on Dashboard

Assuredly's Privacy Reasonable Steps Assessment helps organisations measure their compliance with the reasonable steps required under the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). The assessment is guided by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner's (OAIC) Guide to Securing Personal Information, which the OAIC uses when investigating whether an entity has met its personal information security obligations.

There are 3 ways to view the results of your assessment on the Assesmsent Dashoard.

• Standard Catergory
• Privacy Lifecycle
• APP 11 Clause

How to get to the dashboard

1. Open your Privacy Reasonable Steps assessment.
2. Select Privacy Steps next to practice areas to view your results.

Privacy Lifecycle View

What is the Privacy Lifecycle Taxonomy?

Personal information moves through a lifecycle within every organisation — from the point it is collected, through how it is used and stored, through to its eventual destruction or de-identification. The OAIC's Guide to Securing Personal Information addresses obligations across all of these stages.

Assuredly has tagged controls in the Privacy Reasonable Steps assessment with the lifecycle stage they relate to. The four lifecycle stages are:

• Collection -   Controls that relate to how personal information is gathered, received, or generated by your organisation.
• Use -  Controls that relate to how personal information is accessed, processed, or applied within your organisation.
• Storage -  Controls relating to how personal information is held, secured, and maintained.
• Destruction -  Controls relating to the secure deletion, de-identification, or disposal of personal information no longer required

How to Use the Privacy Lifecycle View

1. On the Assessment Dashboard
2. Locate the Grouping dropdown, which appears under the maturity results for the standard.
3. Select Privacy Lifecycle from the dropdown.
4. The charts on your dashboard will now group controls by their Privacy Lifecycle tag, showing your maturity score for each Privacy Lifecycle grouping

Tip: If you log out or you switch devices, you may need to reselect your preferred grouping

APP 11 Clause View

What is the APP 11 Clause Taxonomy?

Australian Privacy Principle 11 (APP 11) requires entities to take reasonable steps to protect personal information from misuse, interference, loss, and from unauthorised access, modification, or disclosure. APP 11 is further broken down into specific sub-clauses, each addressing a different aspect of how personal information should be protected.

Assuredly has tagged each relevant control in the Privacy Reasonable Steps assessment with the specific APP 11 sub-clause it relates to. This allows you to see — at a glance — which parts of APP 11 each of your controls and risks supports.

Why this matters

• Auditors and regulators ask: "Which controls support which part of APP 11?" You can now answer instantly.
• Improves defensibility — your report shows exactly which Privacy Act provisions each control addresses.
• Clients and boards can see transparency across specific obligations, not just an overall maturity score.
• Quickly identify gaps in coverage for a specific APP clause before a regulatory review

 Note: The exact list of APP clause tags is built into the Assuredly taxonomy. Not every control maps to an APP sub-clause — some controls relate to broader governance or training requirements

How to Use the APP Clause View

1. On the Assessment Dashboard
2. Locate the Grouping dropdown, which appears under the maturity results for the standard.
3. Select APP Clauses from the dropdown.
4. The charts on your dashboard will now group controls by their APP clause tag, showing your maturity score for each APP clause grouping

Tip: If you log out or you switch devices, you may need to reselect your preferred grouping

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do some controls not have an APP 11 clause or lifecycle tag?

Not every control in the Privacy Reasonable Steps assessment maps to a specific APP 11 sub-clause. Controls relating to general training, workforce management, or internal governance practices operate across the whole privacy program rather than within a single clause.

Can I filter the dashboard to show only controls in a specific APP 11 clause?

Not in the dashboard but you can in Reports. Read more about creating a Priavcy Report here.

Will my grouping preference reset if I log out?

If you use a different browser or device, you may need to re-select your preferred grouping.

Does this affect how assessment questions are answered?

No. The taxonomy tags are applied by Assuredly to controls in the background and do not change how you complete the assessment. They only affect how results are displayed and grouped in your dashboard and reports.

I can see a control is tagged APP 11.13 — where does that link in the Privacy Act?

APP 11 is the Australian Privacy Principle that requires entities to take reasonable steps to protect personal information. The sub-clauses (e.g. 11.13, 11.17, 11.27) refer to specific paragraphs within the OAIC's Guide to Securing Personal Information that set out examples of those reasonable steps. Assuredly uses the OAIC's guide numbering to provide precise traceability.