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Transfer Risk Register

Traceable register of transfer risks, existing safeguards, treatments, residual ratings, owners, approval requirements, and reassessment triggers.

Status
Draft for external legal and privacy review
Version
0.9
Classification
Public
Last reviewed
12 August 2026
Next review
12 November 2026
Effective date
Pending approval
Owner
Privacy and enterprise risk owners - confirmation required
Approval
Executive risk owner and privacy counsel - pending
Supersedes
None - initial publication
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Document IDCIC-PIA-TIA-007
Version0.9
Superseded versionNone - initial publication
StatusDraft for external legal and privacy review
Publication classificationPublic
OwnerPrivacy and enterprise risk owners - confirmation required
ApproverExecutive risk owner and privacy counsel - pending
Effective datePending approval
Last reviewed12 August 2026
Next review12 November 2026 or earlier after a material change

Rating method

Likelihood and impact are rated Low, Medium, or High. Residual risk reflects the current evidence state after evidenced safeguards, not the safeguards CIC intends to add. A missing transfer mechanism, unknown importer, unknown destination, or ineffective safeguard prevents an Approved decision for Restricted data.

Treatment decisions are:

  • Mitigate: implement additional contractual, technical, or organizational controls.
  • Avoid: stop or redesign the transfer.
  • Transfer: allocate defined obligations contractually without treating the contract as complete risk removal.
  • Accept: named executive risk owner accepts a time-limited residual risk after privacy, security, and legal review.

Active register

Risk IDRisk and affected transfersCurrent safeguardsResidual riskRequired treatment and ownerDecision state
TR-01Actual production providers and optional integrations are not fully reconciled, causing incomplete transfer mapping. Affects T-01 to T-15.Repository inventory and public processing register.HighPrivacy program owner must reconcile contracts, invoices, consoles, logs, and features.Open; no blanket approval.
TR-02Database provider, cluster, backup, and support locations are unconfirmed while broad Confidential and Restricted data may be stored. Affects T-03.Connection security, application access controls, selected field encryption and masking.HighInfrastructure owner must export provider, regions, encryption, access, backup, DPA, mechanism, and subprocessor evidence.Suspend expansion of Restricted data if closure evidence cannot be produced.
TR-03Cloud hosting/storage legal entity, exact region commitments, backups, support, and transfer terms are incomplete. Affects T-01, T-02, T-15.Confirmed deployment architecture, transport security, access controls, governance policies.Medium-High; High for identity filesCloud owner must complete controlled evidence pack and counsel review.Open with conditions; approval pending.
TR-04Financial and identity providers can receive highly sensitive data without product-by-product transfer decisions. Affects T-06 to T-10.Data minimization rules, webhook controls in selected paths, role restrictions, reconciliation controls.HighFinance and privacy owners must approve each active rail, field map, provider entity, location, contract, mechanism, retention, deletion, and incident terms.New unassessed products not approved.
TR-05Voice, video, screen, and recording routing/storage locations and consent controls are unconfirmed. Affects T-12.Role-based session access and recording workflow capability.HighProduct, security, and privacy owners must verify production state, routing, storage, consent, retention, deletion, provider terms, and mechanism.Recording remains unapproved where evidence is absent.
TR-06Email and notification content may expose sensitive information through an unconfirmed active provider or routing chain. Affects T-05.Preference separation, templates, suppression handling, security notification design.Medium-HighCommunications owner must map provider by channel, minimize templates, confirm terms, locations, subprocessors, retention, and deletion.Open.
TR-07CIC workforce and contractor access countries are not inventoried, so remote access transfers may be omitted. Affects T-16.Role-based access, admin separation, audit design, personnel governance.HighPeople, security, and privacy owners must maintain location, role, access, contract, training, and review records.New Restricted-data access from unassessed countries not approved.
TR-08Provider subprocessors or support locations may change without timely review. Affects all vendor transfers.Vendor governance process and review triggers.Medium-HighVendor-risk owner must subscribe to notices, record deadlines, assess material changes, and document acceptance or objection.Open.
TR-09Executed SCCs, UK terms, Nigerian safeguards, Canadian comparable-protection evidence, or DPF scope may not match each actual flow.Public legal framework and mechanism decision rules.HighPrivacy owner and counsel must select, complete, and approve a mechanism per transfer.No legal approval inferred.
TR-10Provider or public-authority access to plaintext may defeat encryption as a supplementary measure.Transport encryption, provider encryption, selected field-level encryption, masking, minimization.Medium-High to HighSecurity owner must document key control and plaintext necessity; redesign or suspend where effective protection cannot be achieved.Transfer-specific decision required.
TR-11Retention and deletion may differ across CIC and provider systems, extending cross-border exposure.Retention analysis, deletion policy, dry-run capability, account-closure workflows.Medium-HighData owner must approve schedules and verify provider deletion, backups, legal holds, and completed runs.Open.
TR-12Government requests may be overbroad, secret, or difficult for affected people to challenge.Documented request procedure, contract diligence requirements, minimization and audit.Medium-HighLegal and privacy owners must confirm provider commitments and request history; apply case procedure and reassess after a request.Documented, not yet exercised for this assessment.
TR-13Evidence publication could expose credentials, private endpoints, architecture, personal data, or contract-confidential information.Public/restricted evidence separation, redaction rules, source review.MediumGovernance and security owners must run disclosure validation and manual review before every publication.Mitigation implemented in publication workflow; recurring review required.
TR-14CIC cannot promptly stop one provider flow if a mechanism or safeguard fails.Policy suspension rule and environment-configured integrations.Medium-HighProduct and infrastructure owners must document kill switches, fallback behavior, preservation requirements, and owner escalation per active provider.Technical coverage requires confirmation.
TR-15A destination law, adequacy decision, certification, or provider practice may change between scheduled reviews.Quarterly review schedule and material-change triggers.MediumPrivacy owner must operate legal/provider monitoring and create immediate reassessment records for material changes.Owner and evidence required.
TR-16Controller identity, establishment, and exporter role are not confirmed, creating uncertainty in applicable law and contract selection.Governance documents identify role questions.HighExecutive and legal owners must confirm legal entities, establishments, registrations, and role per processing purpose.Blocks final approval.
TR-17Public draft may be misrepresented as legal approval, certification, or warranty.Prominent draft status, limitations, evidence states, and no blanket approval.MediumGovernance owner must preserve status metadata and obtain approval before changing to Approved.Controlled by publication design.
TR-18Historical evidence may include exposed credentials previously committed to source control.Current deployment configuration removes runtime secrets from tracked descriptor and uses protected repository secrets.High until rotationService owners must rotate every affected credential, review access and logs, validate deployment, and record completion without publishing secret values.Open security remediation.

Risk ratings

Risk IDLikelihoodImpactInherent riskResidual riskTreatment
TR-01HighHighHighHighMitigate through production reconciliation and owner approval.
TR-02MediumHighHighHighMitigate urgently; avoid expansion if evidence cannot be produced.
TR-03MediumHighHighMedium-High to HighMitigate through provider, region, contract, and safeguard evidence.
TR-04MediumHighHighHighMitigate per product; avoid unapproved rails.
TR-05MediumHighHighHighMitigate or keep recording disabled.
TR-06MediumMediumMedium-HighMedium-HighMitigate through channel mapping and content minimization.
TR-07MediumHighHighHighMitigate through location inventory and least-privilege certification.
TR-08MediumHighHighMedium-HighMitigate through notice monitoring and timely assessment.
TR-09MediumHighHighHighMitigate through executed and approved mechanisms; avoid otherwise.
TR-10MediumHighHighMedium-High to HighMitigate technically; avoid transfer where data cannot be protected.
TR-11MediumHighHighMedium-HighMitigate through approved schedules and verified deletion.
TR-12Low to MediumHighHighMedium-HighMitigate contractually and procedurally; reassess after any request.
TR-13MediumHighHighMediumMitigate through automated scanning and manual disclosure review.
TR-14MediumHighHighMedium-HighMitigate through tested feasibility of provider-level suspension.
TR-15MediumHighHighMediumMitigate through quarterly monitoring and immediate triggers.
TR-16HighHighHighHighMitigate through entity and role confirmation before legal approval.
TR-17MediumMediumMediumMediumMitigate through immutable Draft metadata and approval governance.
TR-18MediumHighHighHigh until rotationMitigate through rotation, revocation, log review, and incident decision.

Risk acceptance requirements

A Medium-High or High transfer risk can be accepted only when the record includes:

  • precise transfer scope and business necessity;
  • reason mitigation or avoidance is not currently proportionate;
  • applicable legal mechanism and counsel decision;
  • compensating safeguards and evidence;
  • affected data and people;
  • monitoring and incident triggers;
  • named privacy, security, business, and executive risk owners;
  • start date, expiration date, and maximum review period;
  • actions required before renewal.

High-risk acceptance must not be indefinite. It cannot override a legal prohibition or substitute for a missing required mechanism.

Priority order

The critical closure sequence is:

  • confirm CIC legal entities and responsible owners;
  • reconcile active providers and production destinations;
  • close database and Restricted-file hosting evidence;
  • close financial, identity, recording, and workforce-access flows;
  • execute and approve applicable transfer mechanisms;
  • rotate historically exposed credentials and verify access history;
  • confirm technical suspension, deletion, and recurring monitoring controls;
  • obtain executive and counsel approval.

Review triggers

Any material provider, product, data, purpose, destination, workforce, legal, certification, incident, government-request, architecture, encryption, retention, or subprocessor change requires review. Risks must also be reviewed at least quarterly while this report remains draft.

Limitation

This public register omits restricted technical and contractual evidence. It was prepared with AI assistance and requires named-owner confirmation and counsel review.