How your compliance posture score works
The score out of 10 on Home and Reports: what lowers it, its three bands and its change since last month.
Your compliance posture is a score out of 10 built from the deadlines your registers are running. It's beside the greeting on Home, on Reports › Overview, on the Report templates tab and in the compliance posture report, and it's the same score in every one of them.
What lowers the score
The score starts at 10. Each deadline in Needs your attention on Home takes off an amount set by how close it is:
| Deadline | Takes off |
|---|---|
| Overdue | 1 |
| Due within 24 hours | 0.5 |
| Due within 7 days | 0.15 |
| Due later | Nothing |
The score never goes below 0 and is rounded to one decimal place. Two overdue deadlines and one due within 24 hours, for example, give 10 − 2 − 0.5 = 7.5.
The deadlines counted are open privacy requests, NIS 2 notification stages, content reports awaiting a decision, and records of processing and DPIAs due for review. A deadline on a calendar date runs to the end of that day; a NIS 2 stage runs to the hour.
The three bands
| Score | Band |
|---|---|
| 8.5 to 10 | Nothing late, nothing close |
| 6.5 to 8.4 | Deadlines running short |
| Below 6.5 | Obligations already overdue |
What the score doesn't measure
The score counts deadlines and nothing else. It doesn't check whether your registers are open, whether your mandates are signed or which laws apply to you, so a new workspace with nothing recorded scores 10. Open recalls have no deadline, so they don't count either.
The change since last month
Each day someone opens Reports › Overview, that day's score is recorded. Home and Reports compare today's score with the latest recorded score that's at least 30 days old, shown as, for example, +0.5 vs last month. If no recorded score is that old, Home shows how many deadlines are running instead, and Reports shows the band.
The Compliance posture · trailing 12 months chart on Reports plots the last recorded score of each month. Days when nobody opens the Overview have no score, so the chart fills in as the months pass, and it needs scores from at least two months to draw a line.