Speaker: Ritasha
Jethva, Head of Information Privacy, ABSA.
Presentation
topic: Data Privacy @ Absa
Presentation
abstract:
Data Privacy @ Absa is all about sharing and unpacking the thrills, challenges
and lessons learnt on the Absa Group wide Data Privacy Programme.
About Ritasha Jethva:
Ritasha Jethva is currently the Head of Information Privacy at Absa, where she
is accountable for the rollout of a Group wide and National Privacy programme,
spanning all local geographic locations as well as all applicable product and
service offerings. Ritasha, currently chairs the Privacy Working of South
Africa, where she works closely with industry members via the SABS (South
African Bureau of Standards) on Privacy issues within SA as well as contributes
to the development of SA specific privacy standards and architectures.
Ritasha also obtained her CIPP (Certified
Information Privacy Professional) certification in the US after undergoing US
training within the privacy space. Previously, Ritasha was a manager within the
Enterprise Risk Services division of Deloitte, where she was in charge of the
National Privacy & Compliance competency. She has about 6 years experience in
Information Technology, Governance, Security and Privacy concerns. She has led
the implementation of Information Security Management Systems at a multitude of
corporate institutions, both locally and globally. She has also consulted on
major IT Governance initiatives to organisations in the health, energy,
manufacturing, retail and banking sectors. She has also been involved in
consulting in the information risk management space, particularly in respect to
information and data classification, focussing on the practical implementation
of IT focussed Governance, Risk and Compliance practices to facilitate
regulatory compliance and privacy requirements for large multinational
organisations..