Simplify GDPR compliance with NordLayer
GDPR compliance can be a technical and logistical challenge. NordLayer security solutions cut through the complexity, helping you meet GDPR requirements quickly and confidently.
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BENEFITS
Improve GDPR compliance across your network
NordLayer helps you turn GDPR compliance requirements into practical security controls. With centralized gateway access management, encrypted connections, and detailed activity logs, you can better protect personal data, support the rights of data subjects (the individuals whose data you process), and stay prepared for audits without overloading IT or disrupting how your teams work.
Granular access control to personal data
Define who can access specific systems, apps, and internal resources based on roles and responsibilities. This reduces unnecessary data exposure, limits insider risk, and aligns everyday access with GDPR’s data minimization and “need-to-know” principles.
Encrypted connections for safer data processing
Secure all traffic between users, offices, and cloud environments with modern VPN encryption. This helps protect data in transit, reduce interception risk, and support GDPR’s privacy-by-design approach throughout your network.
Visibility and logs for audits and incidents
Monitor who connects, from where, and what activity occurs across your network. Centralized logs and monitoring simplify incident investigations and demonstrate appropriate technical and organizational measures during GDPR audits.
SUMMARY
GDPR compliance requirements
GDPR compliance contains different regulations on collecting, storing, and using customer data, so finding an effective security solution is essential for compliance. Here’s a summary of the main GDPR requirements:
Data Processing
Assuring the privacy of data owners.
Data Protection
Safeguarding data against breaches and unauthorized use (risk).
Breach Notification
Responding to breaches and theft in a timely and effective manner.
Subject Rights
Right to access, amend, restrict, and delete data.
DETAILED VIEW
Support GDPR compliance with built-in security tools
Data processing
Encrypt traffic in transit
Whenever customer data or other sensitive information moves between networks, it may be exposed to potential attacks. NordLayer encrypts this traffic using AES-256 or ChaCha20, helping you avoid security incidents and personal data breaches.
Monitor and verify user activity
Monitoring and verifying gateway access and user requests allow businesses to understand who is inside the enterprise network and what data they are attempting to access. This monitoring is crucial to ensure GDPR compliance.
Data Protection
Implement access control to sensitive data
Whoever you’re giving access to––enterprise users, third-party administrators, or business associates––the experience should be efficient, seamless, and safe. With NordLayer, all user identities are verified before network access permissions are granted, ensuring data security and compliance with GDPR.
Secure remote access
Modern organizations need modern security solutions that quickly adapt to the complexities of hybrid working environments and GDPR rules. NordLayer ensures users, devices, apps, and data receive consistent safeguards—no matter where work happens.
Ensure safe access to data in the cloud
When working with cloud service providers (CSPs) like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Entra ID, Google Cloud Platform, or others, compliance becomes a shared responsibility between the CSP and the customer. You are responsible for configuring these services in a GDPR-compliant way. NordLayer helps secure these cloud connections that may otherwise be vulnerable.
Implement Threat Prevention
Stop threats before they reach your users and respond quickly when incidents occur. NordLayer automatically restricts untrusted websites and users, preventing potentially harmful malware or other cyber threats from infecting your device.
We can help with GDPR compliance
Every business is different, so, naturally, certain GDPR solutions fit your business needs better than others. Contact NordLayer, and we’ll help you map out a security-focused strategy by identifying which technical measures can best support your GDPR compliance efforts.
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Partner with a compliance leader
NordLayer is committed to ensuring regulatory compliance and securing your business data. Our systems hold ISO 27001 certification and meet the rigorous SOC 2 Type 2 standards. We align with HIPAA Security Rules and use AES-256 and ChaCha20 encryption. Now, let us guide your compliance journey.
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Frequently Asked Questions
GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation. It provides rights and requirements protecting the privacy of individuals in the EU and EEA, regardless of citizenship. The GDPR specifies how businesses should handle the personal data of any of their customers who are in the European Union. It also includes mandates for cybersecurity systems and processes that businesses must implement to protect that data.
According to Article 3 of the GDPR, any “controller” or “processor” that provides any good or service to an individual that lives in the EU (or the EEA) is subject to the GDPR. These “controllers” and “processors” can be organizations, companies, individuals, corporations, public authorities, and other entities—including small businesses, charities, and nonprofit organizations—that are either based in the EU, offer goods or services (even for free) to people in the EU, or that monitor the behavior and data of people in the EU, either directly or as a third party.
In summary, GDPR DOES NOT apply to you only if your organization is not located in the EU and does not collect, process, or monitor the personal data or behavior of individuals in the EU.
Over the last several years, there has been a growing demand for greater oversight on how organizations collect, use, share, and delete personal data. The GDPR requires that you have controls and data management solutions to protect your customers if your organization processes the personal data of people in the EU, regardless of where your business is located.
As technology progressed, the EU recognized the need for modern protections. So in 1995, it passed the European Data Protection Directive, establishing minimum data privacy and security standards, upon which each member state based its own implementing legislation.
Any subjective or objective information that could be used—alone or in combination with publicly available information—to identify a natural person is considered personal data.
There are eight rights granted to every EU individual under the GDPR:
- The Right to Information
- The Right of Access
- The Right to Rectification
- The Right to Erasure
- The Right to Restriction of Processing
- The Right to Data Portability
- The Right to Object
- The Right to Avoid Automated Decision-Making
GDPR does not specify retention periods for personal data. Instead, it states that personal data may only be kept in a form that permits identification of the individual for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was processed.
The fines for violating the GDPR are very high. Suppose data breaches are not reported within 72 hours. In that case, there are two tiers of penalties, which max out at €20 million or 4% of global revenue (whichever is higher). Additionally, data subjects have the right to seek compensation for damages.