This course shows how organisations identify, protect, and govern the digital assets that now carry much of their value: personal data, business information, software, content, brands, and the systems that hold them. It connects data protection duties, intellectual property rights, and day-to-day governance so these topics are managed together rather than as separate legal checklists.
Participants learn how to classify digital assets, apply data protection principles, recognise intellectual property issues in ordinary digital work, and put ownership, access, retention, and accountability into practice. The programme is practical and principle-based. It uses widely recognised approaches—such as data protection principles reflected in regimes like the GDPR, and standard concepts of copyright, trademarks, trade secrets, and licensing—without replacing legal advice for a specific jurisdiction or dispute.
What counts as a digital asset: personal data, business data, software, content, brands, models, and records
Value, risk, and accountability
Ownership versus custody versus access
Where assets are created, stored, shared, and lost: systems, cloud services, suppliers, and staff devices
A simple asset and information map
Personal data, sensitive data, and roles such as controller and processor
Core principles: purpose, minimisation, accuracy, security, storage limitation, and accountability
Lawful use, transparency, and individual rights at a practical level
Sharing with processors, partners, and cross-border arrangements
Privacy by design in projects, products, and AI or analytics initiatives
Breach recognition and escalation
Workshop: Reviewing a data-use scenario against protection principles
Copyright, trademarks, trade secrets, and related rights in everyday digital work
Ownership of employee, contractor, and jointly created work
Software, content, data compilations, and training or using third-party material
Licensing: what rights are granted, what is restricted, and what must be recorded
Open-source and third-party content considerations at a governance level
Protecting confidential know-how and brand assets
Workshop: Spotting intellectual property issues in a product or content workflow
Classification and handling rules
Access control, sharing, and least privilege
Retention, disposal, and records that must be kept
Contracts and supplier clauses for data and intellectual property
Registers: assets, processing activities, licences, and ownership
Monitoring, exceptions, and assurance
Linking governance to information security and risk management
Data breaches, unauthorised use of content, licence breaches, and loss of confidential material
Escalation, containment, notification considerations, and lessons learned
Decision rights for new data uses, new products, and new vendors
Metrics and reporting for leadership
Capstone: Build a digital asset governance outline covering classification, data protection controls, intellectual property checks, ownership, and escalation
Training a team? Request private delivery at your workplace or online, tailored to your priorities. We’ll confirm the scope, dates and fees in your proposal.
Tell us what your organisation needs. The Komatek Academy team can discuss group pricing, preferred dates, delivery format and tailored course content.
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