CPA
Summary
Regulation: Colorado Privacy Act
Abbreviation: CPA
Governs these parties: all organizations that conduct business in Colorado or intentionally target Colorado residents with commercial products or services
Enforced by: the office of the Attorney General (OAG)
Details
Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), Colorado becomes the third U.S state after California and Virginia to pass comprehensive data privacy legislation, aimed to safeguard the privacy rights of Colorado residents. The design of this privacy act protects consumers in their online activities. In addition, it gives people more control over their personally identifiable information, including making inquiries and requests to data controllers.
It also compels organizations to establish a transparent process for consumers to appeal a denial of a request and mention that they can contact the Attorney General if they have any concerns.
In order to comply with the CPA requirements, consumers have the right to opt-out of data profiling or the processing of their data for targeted advertising or sale. They can access any data that any organization collects about them, make corrections to the stored data, delete the collected data and transfer the data to another entity as well.
The rest of this document is designed to help our community understand CPA better by outlining the following information:
How this regulation relates to cybersecurity
In addition to the opt-out right, consumers will be afforded the right to access certain personal data and obtain it in a portable, readily usable format and with the right to correct inaccuracies and delete personal data concerning them. Once a consumer submits a request to access, correct, delete, or provide personal data, the receiving entity must respond to the consumer’s request within 45 days of receiving it. Consumers will have the right to appeal an entity’s decision.
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 CPA 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 | Provides data loss prevention (DLP) for regulatorily and business-sensitive data | |
| 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 | |
| DLP over outgoing/incoming email | Encrypts emails before they are sent, which are then decrypted by their recipients at the other end. | |
| Business email compromise (BEC) | Scans business email, detects and protects against social engineering attacks | |
| Email account takeover | Email attacks from within the organization | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| PII monitoring | Monitor for personally identifiable information, or PII, is 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 |