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Easily meet GDPR compliance using EventLog Analyzer

 
GDPR Overview

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What is GDPR compliance?

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comprises 11 chapters with 99 articles requiring enterprises to protect the personal data and privacy of EU citizens. Complying with the GDPR is a tedious process, as it requires changes to an enterprise's security strategy; the way they store, handle, and process sensitive data; and more. Non-compliance with the GDPR can result in organizations having to pay hefty fines up to €20 million or 4% of their global revenue, whichever is higher.

ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer, log and compliance management software, helps enterprises easily comply with GDPR requirements. It helps with complying to the GDPR requirement "the ability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and services" (Chapter 4; Article 32; 1(b)). Further, EventLog Analyzer can help data protection officers communicate the impact of data breach with detailed incident analysis and reports.

Learn how EventLog Analyzer simplifies adherence to GDPR compliance

  • Breach notifications
  • User monitoring and policy changes
  • Conduct in-depth GDPR data auditing
  • Ensuring personal data integrity
  • Exhaustive incident reports to help with impact assessment
  • Conduct log forensic analysis using a powerful log search

Breach notifications

The advanced threat intelligence capability of EventLog Analyzer combined with the MITRE ATT&CK framework helps with the detection of data breaches and efficient incident response. Eventlog Analyzer generates detailed incident reports that help in impact assessment. Get real-time alerts on correlation and GDPR breach violations with EventLog Analyzer's real-time alerting feature, and submit data breach report to higher authorities within 72 hours of their occurrence. Moreover, EventLog Analyzer helps protect personal data from data exfiltration attempts and ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data stored is in accordance with Article 32 of the GDPR, security of processing.

Breach notifications

User monitoring and policy changes

Organizations must be transparent and responsible in their user monitoring and policy changes in order to comply with the GDPR. EventLog Analyzer helps strengthen your organization's data security posture and ensure privacy by enforcing proper security measures when handling personal data. It provides contextual audit trials, which capture all events to prevent a potential security breach. It also helps monitor account activities, user activities like successful and failed user logons and logoffs, and database activities throughout your network, and takes an appropriate remedial action whenever necessary.

User monitoring and policy changes

Conduct in-depth GDPR data auditing

One of the requirements of the GDPR is maintaining the integrity and confidentiality of personal data stored in the database. EventLog Analyzer's real-time database auditing capabilities help you monitor all the changes made to your database tables such as data definition language (DDL) and data manipulation language (DML) changes (like select, insert, delete, and update queries).

EventLog Analyzer also helps you detect database attacks like SQL injection and denial of service attacks. It also identifies data breaches like unauthorized database backups. The solution sends an instant alert whenever a critical change is made to the database where personal data is stored. EventLog Analyzer provides insights into your organisation's data processing activities and helps in identifying potential data breaches and non-compliance with the GDPR.

Conduct in-depth GDPR data auditing

Ensuring personal data integrity

Complying with GDPR Article 32, which mandates the security of personal data processing, is a crucial responsibility for every organization. To aid organizations in meeting this requirement, EventLog Analyzer offers comprehensive solutions that guarantee the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of personal data.

With its file integrity monitoring (FIM) and column integrity monitoring capabilities for databases, EventLog Analyzer ensures that personal data is protected from any unauthorized access, modification, or security threats. It monitors all file activity, such as new file creation, existing file modifications, file renames, and deletions, to ensure that all changes made to executable files, folders, system configuration files, content files, zipped files, and zipped folders are thoroughly tracked, and any deviations from established baselines will trigger an alert.

Additionally, EventLog Analyzer conducts detailed audit trials of user logons and permission changes made to file servers that store personal data and consolidates all pertinent data in FIM reports. As a result, it assists organizations in ensuring that the confidentiality and integrity of their systems are not jeopardized.

Ensuring personal data integrity

Exhaustive incident reports to help with impact assessment

EventLog Analyzer correlates events across different network entities to accurately spot attack patterns. It helps create custom correlation rules, which help you detect suspicious software installations and unauthorized backup activity. EventLog Analyzer's incident report feature also supports correlation by grouping related events together based on severity levels, sources, and time stamps, which helps in assessing the impact of these events on the affected systems.

The incident response and management console triggers automated workflows for incident alerts and responds as needed, without intervention from a security administrator, thus minimizing critical incident response times. You can also configure the solution to automatically raise tickets and assign them to the appropriate security admin, so the admins can act quickly in response to incidents. The solution's centralized incident manager console helps you identify all security incidents in one place, letting you to prioritize threats and take quick remedial action.

Exhaustive incident reports to help with impact assessment

Conduct log forensic analysis using a powerful log search

The GDPR requires organizations to document and report data breaches to the relevant authorities and affected individuals within 72 hours of discovering the breach. Log forensic analysis can help organizations meet this requirement by providing detailed information about the incident, including when it occurred, what data was affected, and how it was accessed or exfiltrated.

Conduct log forensic analysis with the help of solution's advanced search capability and high-speed log processing. Drill down through raw logs related to any security incident with a wide range of search queries like wildcard, phrase, Boolean, and grouped searches. You can also search using event IDs, severity, source, username, and IP address to detect unauthorized access, unusual logons, applications errors, and more.

Conduct log forensic analysis using a powerful log search
GDPR requirements Reports by EventLog Analyzer

GDPR ARTICLE 5 (1B)

"Collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall, in accordance with Article 89(1), not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes (‘purpose limitation’)."

  • User logons
  • User logoffs
  • Unix unsuccessful user logons
  • Windows successful user logons and logoffs
  • Audit policy changes
  • SQL Server Denial of Service
  • Oracle SQL injection

GDPR ARTICLE 5 (1D)

"Accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay (‘accuracy’)."

  • MSSQL DDL and DML changes
  • Oracle DDL and DML changes
  • PostgreSQL Logons, DDL and DML Changes

GDPR ARTICLE 5 (1F)

"Processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures (‘integrity and confidentiality’)."

  • Audit policy changes
  • User rights assigned
  • User rights removed
  • Trusted domain deleted
  • Failed network logons

GDPR ARTICLE 32 (1B)

"The ability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and services."

  • User account created
  • User account deleted
  • User account modified
  • User group changes

GDPR ARTICLE 32 (1D)

"A process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organisational measures for ensuring the security of the processing."

  • MSSQL security changes
  • Oracle DDL and DML changes
  • DB2 DDL and DML changes
  • Printer auditing changes

GDPR ARTICLE 32 (2)

"In assessing the appropriate level of security account shall be taken in particular of the risks that are presented by processing, in particular from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed."

  • Successful logon and logoff reports
  • Configuration changes
  • Endpoint health
  • Denied connections and website traffic

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Frequently asked questions

What is the GDPR?

The GDPR is a European data privacy law that provides EU citizens more control over their personal data and ensures organization's handle personal data responsibly. Every organization that does business in the EU must abide by the GDPR. As per the GDPR, an individual can request companies to delete or stop processing their personal data at any time.

The three major concerns that the GDPR addresses are:

  • Ensuring personal data are processed in a lawful, fair, and transparent manner.
  • Obtain consent from the data subject before processing personally identifiable information (PII) and collect only the necessary data (data minimization).
  • Organization's that are not based out of EU yet do business in the EU and processes EU citizens' personal data must also adhere to the GDPR.

What are the eight principles of the GDPR?

According to the EU's GDPR, the eight key principles that organizations must follow to ensure personal data protection are:

  • Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency: Processing of personal data must be lawful, fair, and transparent.
  • Purpose limitation: Personal data must be collected for specific, explicit, and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a way that contradicts those purposes.
  • Data minimization: Personal data must be adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.
  • Accuracy: Personal data must be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.
  • Storage limitation: Personal data must be kept in a form that allows data subjects to be identified for no longer than is required for the purposes for which the personal data is processed.
  • Integrity and confidentiality: Personal data must be securely processed to prevent unauthorized processing, accidental loss, destruction, or damage.
  • Responsibility: Organizations must be held accountable for GDPR principles and be able to demonstrate compliance.
  • Right to be informed: Data subjects have the right to be informed about how their data is collected and used.

How does EventLog analyzer help organizations adhere to the GDPR?

To prove that your organization is GDPR complaint is a daunting task. It takes time and resources to manually monitor every bit of personal data that a business holds.

A log management solution like EventLog Analyzer maintains the confidentiality and privacy of your organization's sensitive data and helps you comply with GDPR requirements. It provides a centralized dashboard for monitoring and analyzing user activity related to personal data. You can also swiftly detect and respond to potential data breaches and help generate GDPR compliance reports with ease.

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