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Running common General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance searches

 

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) covers a wide range of data security issues, including data protection, accountability, data processing, consent from subjects, and privacy. Because your organization does business in Europe, you have to ensure that the way your company handles data is in compliance with all parts of GDPR. The fines for non-compliance are extremely high, so you have little room for error.

How to use Splunk software for this use case

You can use the Splunk platform to manage GDPR in-scope systems to ensure compliance. You can monitor who accesses what systems, what connections occur in your environment, whether systems are patched appropriately, and a number of other key indicators to guarantee compliance with GDPR and facilitate your ability to prove compliance.

Next steps

Measuring impact and benefit is critical to assessing the value of compliance operations. When implementing this use case, you should track the number of out-of-GDPR-compliance incidents detected over time. In addition, review compliance office requirements and reporting policies, and have a method of developing and maintaining an asset and identity catalog with in-scope attributes.

These additional Splunk resources might help you understand and implement this use case: