UCPA
Summary
Regulation: Utah Consumer Privacy Act
Abbreviation: UCPA
Governs these parties: all businesses that process personal data and data rights for Utah citizens
Enforced by: the office of the Attorney General (OAG)
Details
UCPA aims to give consumers substantial control over their personal data, and emphasizes the privacy of children, in particular, providing tools to protect their privacy and control the usage of their personal data.
In order to comply, ensure:
- awareness in the workplace and implement data security on all levels including technical, administrative, and physical.
- your Privacy Notice is updated and promotes transparency and accessibility
- implementation of a proper consent management system
The rest of this document is designed to help our community understand UCPA better by outlining the following information.
How this regulation relates to cybersecurity
The UCPA establishes consumers’ rights to access, delete, portability, and opt-out of targeted advertising or sale of personal data, adopting transparency in their data processing activities. It also establishes controller and processor obligations, and privacy notice requirements.
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 UCPA 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 | Protects against 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 |