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Managing privacy risk: Getting started with the NIST Privacy Framework

A ready-made course, live deck and two surveys for small and medium business owners. AhaSlides tracks progress, completion and scores for you. 30 minutes, 6 lessons, 10-question final check. Last reviewed 6 November 2026; not legal advice.

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Course outline at a glance

  • Privacy and trust
  • Privacy risk and cyber security
  • Quiz
  • Accordion
  • Sorting activity

  • Identify what you process
  • Govern
  • Quiz
  • Scenario
  • Flashcards
  • Sorting activity

  • Control-P
  • Communicate-P
  • Accordion
  • Scenario
  • Quiz
  • Sorting activity

  • Protect-P
  • Using both frameworks together
  • Sorting activity
  • Quiz
  • Flashcards

  • Where you are and where you want to be
  • Tiers
  • Process
  • Quiz
  • Flashcards
  • Sorting activity

  • Final assessment
  • Course complete
  • Quiz
  • Flashcards

Three pieces that work together

Learners prepare on their own, you answer questions live, and the surveys tell you what stuck. 2 fields to fill in with your own policy, contacts and locations; each one is highlighted inside the course.

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Completion is tracked for you

Learners sign in to take the course, so every start, finish and score is recorded in AhaSlides. No spreadsheet to keep.

  • Who has finished

    See who has not started, who is in progress and who has completed the course.

  • Every score

    Each learner's result on the 10-question final check, against the 80% pass mark.

  • What landed

    Survey results show what people took away and what to change next time.

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6 lessons, about 30 minutes

What learners can do at the end of each lesson. Minutes are an estimate.

  • Lesson 1: Why privacy risk matters · 7 min

    Before you begin · Privacy and trust · Privacy risk and cyber security

  • Lesson 2: Ready: identify and govern · 5 min

    Identify what you process · Govern

  • Lesson 3: Set: control and communicate · 5 min

    Control-P · Communicate-P

  • Lesson 4: Protect and link to cyber security · 5 min

    Protect-P · Using both frameworks together

  • Lesson 5: Go: profiles and tiers · 4 min

    Where you are and where you want to be · Tiers

  • Lesson 6: Final assessment · 4 min

    Final assessment · Course complete

Source and credit: Getting Started with the NIST Privacy Framework: A Guide for Small and Medium Businesses and NIST Privacy Framework Version 1.0 (NIST CSWP 01162020), National Institute of Standards and Technology, www.nist.gov/document/getting-started-nist-privacy-framework-guide-small-and-medium-businesses (opens in a new tab). A US government work in the public domain. National Institute of Standards and Technology does not endorse AhaSlides. Adapted by AhaSlides: rewritten as an interactive course and live session, with activities and quizzes added.

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Common questions

Yes. The course, the live deck and both surveys are free. Claiming the template into your AhaSlides account is free too.

Yes. The course is self-paced and online, and the live deck lets you add a live session in the room or online.

At onboarding or as continuing professional development, with a yearly refresher (best practice).

Small and medium business owners, managers and privacy or IT leads.

Record completion in your own LMS or record system, so you can show who finished the course and when.

Yes, everything. Change the wording, swap scenarios for ones from your workplace, add your logo, or remove parts that don't apply.

Your own details, each highlighted inside the course:
  • Link to your live session deck
  • Link to the self-paced course
Then edit anything else you like: wording, scenarios, your logo.
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