Processing activity overview page

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of Processing Activity Overview Page

    The processing activity overview page provides critical insights into the privacy risk and compliance status of processing activities. It displays essential metrics like compliance score, criticality score, risk posture, and assessment statuses in a structured, vertical layout that enhances user navigation and comprehension of the data processing lifecycle.

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    Key Features

    • Required Roles: Access to the overview page requires the roles of snprivacy.manager and snprivacy.analyst.
    • Structured Layout: The page offers a top-down view that delineates each phase of the data processing workflow, making it easier to track the handling of personal data.
    • Organized Sections: The overview page is divided into six key sections:
      • State: Current workflow status (New, Discover, Review, Monitor, Retired).
      • Compliance Overview: Displays compliance scores, criticality scores, and compliance statuses across authority documents and policies.
      • Risk Overview: Includes residual risk scores and a heatmap for visualizing risk distribution.
      • Assessments: Tracks the number of risk and privacy assessments by their states with filtering options.
      • Priority Tracking: Lists issues and policy exceptions categorized by priority and due dates.
      • Control Assurance: Displays controls and their statuses along with related attestations and indicators.

    Key Outcomes

    By utilizing the processing activity overview page, privacy managers and analysts can effectively assess the compliance posture of processing activities, identify risks, and manage assessments and policy exceptions efficiently. This structured approach supports better decision-making and enhances overall compliance oversight within the organization.

    The processing activity overview page provides the privacy risk and compliance posture for a processing activity. This page contains details, such as compliance score, criticality score, risk posture and heatmap, privacy and risk assessment status, issues and policy exceptions, and control assurance status.

    The vertical layout of a processing activity provides a structured, top-down view that presents information in a clear and sequential manner. This design facilitates an intuitive understanding of the data processing lifecycle by visually representing each step of the workflow in a linear progression. You can easily trace the flow of information from initiation through to completion, enabling better insight into how personal data is collected, used, shared, and retained. This layout supports streamlined navigation and improves the ability to identify key elements and dependencies within the processing activity, enhancing both usability and compliance oversight.

    Figure 1. Processing activity overview page
    Overview of the reports on a processing activity in Privacy management.

    Required roles

    To view the home page, you must have sn_privacy.manager and the sn_privacy.analyst roles.

    Use cases

    For examples of how different people in your organization would use this home page, see the following use cases.
    User Dashboard use
    Privacy manager and Privacy analyst The privacy manager and the privacy analyst can view and understand the privacy compliance posture of the given processing activity.

    Reports in a processing activity overview

    The processing activity overview page is organized into six sections.

    Table 1. State
    Title Description
    State Current state of the processing activity in the workflow: New, Discover, Review, Monitor, and Retired.
    Table 2. Compliance overview
    Title Description
    Compliance score Compliance score percentage of the processing activity and the change since the last period.
    Criticality score Regulatory risk level of the processing activity.
    Compliance status Number of compliant and non-compliant controls for each applicable authority document or policy. Toggle between Authority documents and Policies to switch views.
    Table 3. Risk overview
    Title Description
    Risk posture Residual risk score of the processing activity, along with the inherent risk level and control effectiveness.
    Risk heatmap Distribution of processing activities by residual/inherent risk and control effectiveness levels. You can filter by risk classification.
    Table 4. Assessments
    Title Description
    Risk assessments Number of risk assessments by state, including counts for open, overdue, and due in 7 days. You can filter by RAM template.
    Privacy assessments Number of privacy assessments by state, including counts for open, overdue, and due in 7 days. You can filter by available assessment templates.
    Table 5. Priority tracking
    Title Description
    Issues Number of issues by priority, including counts for open, overdue, and due in 7 days.
    Policy exceptions Number of policy exceptions by risk rating, with counts for open, overdue, and due in 7 days.
    Table 6. Control assurance
    Title Description
    Controls Distribution of controls by state.
    Attestations Number of attestations that are open, overdue, and due in 7 days.
    Indicators Number of indicators that are open, overdue, and failed in the last 6 months.