Data Audit · Plymouth
Data Audit in Plymouth
Establishing what personal and business data a Plymouth organisation actually holds, which is almost always more than anyone expects. The systems are the easy part; the difficulty is the exports, the shared drive folders, the old backups and the spreadsheet somebody keeps because the report they need does not exist.
Why this comes up
The problem
The records say we hold data in six systems, and there are customer exports in three shared folders and an inbox.
What you get
What we deliver
- Every location holding data identified, including the informal and forgotten ones
- What each holds recorded — categories, volumes, and whether anything is sensitive
- Retention compared against what is actually kept, since these rarely agree
- Duplicate and stale copies found, which are pure risk with no operational value
- Access reviewed, because old folders usually permit far more people than intended
- A defensible disposal plan for what should no longer exist
Want this scoped for your business in Plymouth?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what data audit would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Plymouth
South West
Plymouth has the largest naval base in Western Europe, and the defence supply chain around it brings security clearance and accreditation requirements that shape what a supplier can realistically bid for.
Marine and defence supply chain systems where security accreditation is a precondition rather than a differentiator.
Sectors we work with in Plymouth
- Marine & Defence
- Manufacturing
- Healthcare
- Higher Education
- Tourism
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- Microsoft Purview
- SharePoint
- SQL Server
- Power BI
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Financial services
- Healthcare
- Recruitment
- Retail
- Public sector
Why us
Why Plymouth businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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Data Audit in Plymouth — common questions
- Why do copies matter so much?
- Because they carry the same obligations and none of the controls. An export taken for a report two years ago sits in a folder with permissions nobody has reviewed, is not covered by anyone's retention schedule, and would still have to be found and disclosed if somebody asked for their data.
- How is old data actually found?
- Partly by scanning and partly by asking. Tooling finds files matching patterns across storage, but the exports on a departed employee's drive and the reason a team keeps a parallel spreadsheet only emerge from conversations with the people doing the work.
- What is the risk of keeping too much?
- It expands what a breach costs and what a request involves. Data held beyond its purpose is difficult to justify, and an organisation holding fifteen years of records has fifteen years of exposure in exchange for information nobody has looked at since it was created.
- What does defensible disposal mean?
- Deleting with a record of why. The decision, the categories covered, the retention rule applied and the approval should all be documented, so that removing data reads as governance rather than as convenient destruction — a distinction that matters considerably if anyone later asks what happened to a particular record.
- Do you work with businesses across Devon?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout South West, including Plymouth and the surrounding Devon area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Plymouth businesses do you usually work with?
- Marine and defence supply chain systems where security accreditation is a precondition rather than a differentiator. Beyond that we work across Marine & Defence, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Higher Education and Tourism.
- Do you cover the areas around Plymouth?
- Yes — we work throughout South West, including Exeter, Truro, Bristol. Plymouth is an urban area of roughly 260,000+, and we take on work across the wider Devon region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Data Audit in Plymouth
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise