ADPPA
Summary
Regulation: American Data Privacy and Protection Act
Abbreviation: ADPPA
Governs these parties: all organizations that treat consumer data; this applies to most entities, including nonprofits and common carriers
Enforced by: the Federal Trade Commission is the first body responsible for enforcing the ADPPA. However, it will do so by establishing a new bureau within the Commission
Details
The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) operates at the federal level in the United States with a global focus on drafting and enacting stricter data privacy regulations. ADPPA aims to enforce comprehensive cybersecurity protection and data minimization, meaning organizations should only ingest data for “necessary” purposes, thereby protecting consumers’ rights to control their personal data. Additionally, ADPPA also enforces significant protections against targeted advertising to minors and targeted advertising based on “sensitive data”.
ADPPA applies rules and regulations to technologies that enable the collection of data and to businesses and organizations that collect consumer data, including attorneys and law firms.
The rest of this document is designed to help our community understand ADPPA better by outlining the following information:
How this regulation relates to cybersecurity
ADPPA governs how companies across different industries treat consumer data, ensuring duties of loyalty, transparency, consumer control and consent, youth protections, third-party collecting entities, civil rights and algorithms, and data security.
Section 207 of the ADPPA covers entities and service providers that develop algorithms to collect, process, or transfer covered data or publicly available information and would be required to conduct algorithm design evaluations prior to deploying the algorithms in interstate commerce.
In addition, any large data holder that uses an algorithm “that may cause potential harm to an individual,” and uses such algorithms to collect, process, or transfer covered data, would also be required to conduct an algorithm impact assessment on an annual basis.
How Coro handles compliance for you
At Coro, we've done the research thoroughly and regularly track updates to the regulation in order to ensure that you are implementing best practices in the areas we cover when we're protecting your systems.
The following table outlines the requirements described by ADPPA that Coro implements in conjunction with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace.
Disclaimer
This table does not guarantee that your organization is compliant with these regulations. As a best practice, seek assistance from a certified auditor when completing your analysis.
| Category | Requirement | How Coro does it |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud Security & Privacy | Malware and ransomware injection | Detects and remediates malware and ransomware files in cloud drives |
| Cloud app account takeover | Monitors access to cloud apps and user/admin activities on them | |
| Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) | Enforces multi-factor authentication on cloud app access | |
| Data governance over cloud drives | Data loss prevention (DLP) for regulatory and business-sensitive data | |
| Data encryption | Safeguards stored sensitive information against unauthorized use and information leaks | |
| Audit and activity logs | Archives all system activities for a period of seven years, supporting referencing and auditing | |
| Email Security & Privacy | Generic and spear phishing | Detects and remediates social engineering attacks based on email content analysis |
| Identity spoofing | Detects and remediates social engineering attacks based on adaptive identity monitoring | |
| Malware and ransomware injection | Detects and remediates malware and ransomware in email attachments | |
| Embedded links to malicious URLs | Detects and remediates embedded links to malicious servers | |
| Email account takeover | Detects and remediates email attacks from within the organization | |
| DLP over outgoing/incoming email | Encrypts emails before they are sent, which are then decrypted by their recipients at the other end. | |
| Encryption of email during transmission | Encrypts email during transit between the sender and the recipient | |
| Business email compromise (BEC) | Scans business email, detects and protects against social engineering attacks | |
| Audit and activity logs | Archives all system activities for a period of seven years, supporting referencing and auditing | |
| Endpoint Security & Privacy | Antivirus (AV) | Detects and remediates files with high-risk content based on their signatures |
| ATP (NGAV) | Detects and remediates processes exhibiting high-risk behaviors with behavioral analysis | |
| Device security posture | Detects security vulnerabilities on endpoint devices and enforces device security posture | |
| Data recovery | Stores local snapshots of data | |
| DLP on endpoint devices | Provides data loss prevention (DLP) for business-sensitive data and data defined as sensitive by regulations | |
| Audit and activity logs | Archives all system activities for a period of seven years, supporting referencing and auditing | |
| Data Governance | Data distribution governance and role management | Provides data loss prevention (DLP) for data defined as sensitive by regulations |
| Security and business-specific data monitoring | Monitors sensitive data according to business and security best practices, including passwords, certificates, source code, proprietary data, etc. | |
| PII monitoring | Monitors for personally identifiable information, or PII, including information that can be used to identify, contact, or distinguish one unique person from another | |
| Audit and activity logs | Archives all system activities for a period of seven years, supporting referencing and auditing |