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What is the purpose of GDPR?
GDPR Security Requirements
Article 5
Personal data to be processed with lawfulness, fairness, and transparency and only collected for legitimate purposes and not further processed for any kind of archiving, scientific, statistical, or historical research purposes. It must not be kept in a manner to permit unauthorised or unlawful processing and should be kept safe against accidental loss, destruction, or damage using appropriate technical or organisational measures.
Article 33
Report the data breach without delay within 72 hours. Document and report the nature of personal data breach, including the consequences, remedial action is taken, detection and investigation of the data breach, as well as the measures in place to adverse the breach effect. In instances where it is not possible to provide the information of violation at the same time, the notification must be provided in phases without undue delay.
Article 32
Implementation of appropriate technical and organisational measures to assess and to ensure confidentiality, integrity, availability of processing systems and services. This includes the ability to restore the availability and access to personal data in a timely manner in case of a technical or physical incident. A particular process for regularly testing, assessing, and evaluating the effectiveness of organisational controls to ensure security of data processing.Article 35
The Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) is a process that assesses the data protection risks and legal requirements when processing personal information. It provides an opportunity to identify, address, mitigate and monitor these risks in order to fulfil obligations under data privacy laws.
What are the seven principles of GDPR?
All the data we collect must meet the requirements of GDPR and be used fairly and for legitimate purposes. If authorities identify data processing that occurred beyond the data subject, it may attract penalties.
The personal data must be collected and processed for the specified and legitimate reasons and any of the processes that do not comply with the specified purpose or consent would be considered incompatible.
Identify misconfigurations and gaps exploited by attackers in the existing security products and processes.
Identify misconfigurations and gaps exploited by attackers in the existing security products and processes.
Data must not be kept for longer than required and deleted or destroyed once the information is processed for the specified purposes. Based on the archive, statistical, or research purpose subject to the implementation of technical or other controls, it ensures that the organisation follows the GDPR exceptions requirement to safeguard the individual.
Organisation must have strict policies and technical measures to prevent unauthorised and unlawful access. They must ensure the integrity and confidentiality of personal data against all internal and external attacks vectors.
The data controller is responsible for demonstrating all the GDPR principles within the business to ensure the data processing protection, as well as is accountable in case of compliance violations.
Who does GDPR apply to?
Your business must comply with the GDPR if your company has a presence in any of the European countries, processes the EU residents personal data and has more than 250 employees or less than 250 employees with impactful processing of the data under any of the GDPR data process principles.
Businesses can comply with GDPR by verifying their users and customers’ data along with the current security and privacy measures implemented within the organisation. To fulfil the compliance requirements, businesses need to incorporate a technical mechanism to store the information for the specified and required duration.
Under the compliance, every business must protect the following personal data:
- Basic identification details such as name, address, and ID numbers
- Web data such as location, IP address, cookie data, and RFID tags
- Finance Information
- Health and genetic data
- Biometric data
- Racial or ethnic data
- Political opinions
- Sexual orientation
- Genetic information
- Social Identity
- Cultural Identifiable Information
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Frequently Asked Questions
Red team assessments are an effective way of assessing the preparedness of an organisation against real-world cyber attacks.
To measure how well the people, process and technical controls of an organisation withstand an attack from an adversary. It includes attempts at bypassing the security controls, exploiting weaknesses through human elements such as physical controls, phishing and social engineering techniques to bypassing technical controls.
Yes: It is possible where reliable exploits are available before the vendor has released the patch.
No: It is not always Hollywood style hacking because a lot of weaknesses relate to lack of security restrictions in one form or another (patching, permissions, security education, etc).
A few common misconceptions about red teaming are:
- Red team operation is for big companies only.
- It always includes advanced stuff such as zero-days or highly tactical TTP.
- It is just advanced penetration testing.
End to end red team operations varies between 4-8 weeks based on the agreed scope and objectives. There are also shorter projects for 2-3 weeks where tailored scope includes an insider threat scenario or compromise assessment.
The objective of a red team testing activity is to simulate real-world cyber attacks without disruptive actions. All jobs are carried out in line with industry-standard practices by vetted red teamers with strong communication and technical skill-sets and high ethics.
A custom written report is prepared based on the findings. This report serves both technical and non-technical audiences with specific sections dedicated to strategic and tactical recommendations, raw/supplemental data, proof of concepts and risk details such as impact, likelihood and risk scorings. It is followed by mitigation advice along with related references to help customer teams with remediation and improve the security posture of their organisation.
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How Cyphere helps you with GDPR compliance to minimise security risk?
Cyphere’s cyber security services are designed to help you fulfil your information technology and data protection obligations, including those under the GDPR. We help our customers prepare for GDPR compliance in multiple ways:
- To identify, analyse and help with risk remediation plans
- Minimises the risk of data breaches and fines
- Provides an opportunity for risk management and contingency planning.
- Enhance people, process and technology controls
- Provides a better understanding how personal information is processed, transferred or stored
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