GDPR
Summary
Regulation: General Data Protection Regulation
Abbreviation: GDPR
Governs these parties: all organizations which target or collect personal data related to European Union residents
Enforced by: the European Commission, works with each EU Member State, and designates an independent public authority
Details
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) govern businesses to protect not only their customer’s data but also their systems from any potential attacks, with stricter rules surrounding the handling of personal data. As a result, businesses must take extra care to ensure that they are compliant with these regulations.
In order to comply with the GDPR each organization processes personal data (collecting, structuring, organizing, using, storing, sharing, disclosing, erasing, and destruction of data), and must ensure that the personal data it uses fulfills the requirements of the regulation.
The rest of this document is designed to help our community understand GDPR better by outlining the following information.
How this regulation relates to cybersecurity
Internal policies and clear procedures for data management are required to secure data and ensure its integrity, access, use, and security. The cybersecurity policy describes the organization’s overall security expectations, and roles. The stakeholders include outside consultants, IT staff, financial staff, etc.
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 GDPR 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 regulatorily 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Email account takeover | Detects and remediates 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 |
| 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 | Monitors PII (personally identifiable information) that healthcare professionals collect to identify an individual and determine appropriate care | |
| Audit and activity logs | Archives all system activities for a period of seven years, supporting referencing and auditing |