Tool Overview:
Sypher

About Sypher

Sypher is a software platform designed for organizations that need to demonstrate and maintain compliance with privacy regulations. The platform combines privacy management, data mapping, and cookie consent functionalities into an integrated solution. Built with EU privacy regulations in mind, Sypher helps organizations identify gaps in their privacy compliance and provides structured workflows to address these gaps.

What does Sypher do?

The platform breaks down privacy compliance into manageable chapters and tasks, providing step-by-step guidance for collecting and documenting information about data processing activities. It includes features for data mapping, risk assessment, and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs). The system generates visual maps of data processes that can be searched, edited, and filtered, moving beyond traditional spreadsheet-based approaches to compliance documentation.

For website compliance, Sypher provides cookie consent management capabilities that include automatic cookie scanning, consent collection in 26 languages, and integration with Google Consent Mode v2. The platform maintains records of user consents and expired consent records, with storage periods varying from 3 months to 2 years depending on the subscription tier.

What makes Sypher different?

A key aspect of Sypher's approach is its simplified interface for non-privacy team members. The platform provides task-specific instructions and examples designed to minimize disruption to normal business operations while ensuring accurate information collection. The system includes a validation engine that analyzes information from multiple sources to identify potential errors and omissions in compliance documentation.

The platform implements formal verification and approval processes for compliance documentation changes. This structured approach helps organizations maintain accountability as multiple stakeholders submit and modify information. Sypher's versioning system tracks the history of register changes and facilitates scheduled reviews of compliance documentation.

Use cases and industries

Sypher serves organizations across various sectors that need to maintain privacy compliance documentation and manage website cookie consent. The platform offers APIs for integration with existing business systems and supports authentication through Active Directory/LDAP. For organizations with specific security requirements, Sypher can be deployed as a dedicated instance with customized security rules.

The tool is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, with all servers based in the EU. Pricing follows a tiered model based on the number of stored consents, with options ranging from a free basic version supporting 1,000 valid consents per website to enterprise plans handling over 40,000 consents with extended storage periods for expired consent records.