GDPR Penetration Testing Services
Cyphere will uncover hidden vulnerabilities in your systems that could compromise sensitive data. This is imperative to comply with GDPR penetration testing requirements for assessing the privacy of critical infrastructure and applications.
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What is the purpose of GDPR?
The General Data Protection Regulation is a regulation that helps with EU individuals data protection and privacy over their personal data. It also sets out rules for how people’s data should be processed, used and stored.
GDPR came into effect on 25th May 2018 and is considered the world’s strongest set of data protection rules.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to personal data concerning individuals in the member states of Europe (residents within the European Union). Companies need to be transparent in how to collect collected data and how its use. In addition to rights for individual rights – GDPR would also regulate how personal data is handled or used.
How GDPR affects security ?
https://thecyphere.com/services/gdpr-summary/The GDPR emphasises (read the GDPR simplified overview here) the importance to be considered privacy-by-design when developing SaaS platforms and any other web applications or systems. Security specialists are able to maintain internal communication of security matters between different teams.
As part of that, the objective penetration testing, security testing of such applications are to ensure privacy as design and validation of technical measures. If your development team overlooks security in exchange for more release dates you may get into trouble. If your companies are not providing the necessary security measures, you may find yourself in trouble with changes.
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GDPR Article 32
You are required to ensure that security measures in your organisation are effective. ICO clearly states testing of security measures:
“The UK GDPR requires you to have a process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of any measures you put in place. What these tests look like, and how regularly you do them, will depend on your own circumstances.
However, it’s important to note that the requirement in the UK GDPR concerns your measures in their entirety, therefore whatever ‘scope’ you choose for this testing should be appropriate to what you are doing, how you are doing it, and the data that you are processing.”
Key Benefits of GDPR Security Testing
- Identify and remediate security vulnerabilities within your organisation
- Assess and improve your attack surface against threats of cyber attacks on a continuous basis
- Demonstrate cyber security commitment to your supply chain
- Comply with GDPR (Article 32 requirements) for testing, assessing and evaluating technical and organisational measures
- Focus your efforts based on our strategic and tactical recommendations in our infrastructure and web application reports
Risks of non-compliance
Failure to comply with GDPR may attract heavy fines up to 4% of the annual global turnover or €20 million (whichever is greater). In the UK, Information Commissioner’s Office oversees GDPR compliance including violations.
GDPR is seen as a complex set of laws that many organisations find challenging to turn into policies and procedures. It is vital to secure data to avoid unnecessary data leakages and data breaches. We recommend starting your GDPR compliance efforts by performing regular GDPR penetration testing on all systems and applications to improve data safety measures.
More importantly, it is important to validate your security controls to gauge your security team’s efforts are steered in the right direction. 72 hour window of data breach notification and whether you need to report it, how to report it and what to report – is covered by our GDPR data breach reporting article.
Cyphere Penetration Test will uncover hidden vulnerabilities in your systems (applications, networks, servers) that could compromise sensitive data. This is imperative to comply with GDPR requirements for assessing the privacy of critical infrastructure and applications.
Web Applications
It covers assessment of web services, APIs, applications, websites/portals covering OWASP and privacy measures.
Networks and Segmentation
Everything from an external (internet-facing) to an internal company network (active directory security) and network segmentation testing.
Vulnerability Assessment
Vulnerability assessments provide insight into vulnerabilities affecting your internal and external networks.
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GDPR Penetration tests and Cloud Security
GDPR caused a flurry of problems in most IT environments, data security and privacy concerns are growing in cloud environment settings. When it comes to the cloud, we can’t stop reiterating that “Security of the cloud is your cloud provider’s concern. Security in the cloud falls into your remit”.
Whether it’s AWS, Azure or another form of cloud service, it doesn’t reduce the GDPR penalties in the event of a data breach irrespective of who’s at fault or how it happened. For more information around your cloud security concerns, see Azure Pentesting, AWS Penetration testing, Cloud Pentesting.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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