Regulatory Compliance
Protect your Digital Core
Organizations across various industries struggle to effectively achieve and maintain compliance in today’s complex and evolving regulatory environment— leading to increased operational costs, legal vulnerabilities, and reputation damage. Organizations require integrated, cost-effective solutions that can manage access and protect data across multiple applications, while ensuring compliance with multiple overlapping regulations.Â
NextLabs’ Solution for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program
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Electronic Export Control
Explore automated compliance with electronic export regulations such as US ITAR, EAR, German BAFA and UK Export Control Act
NextLabs and the GDPR
Discover how NextLabs automates GDPR compliance and security policies, protecting and controlling access to personally identifiable information to prevent security violations
Challenges
Need-to-Know Access
Organizations expanding globally must comply with data privacy and security regulations like General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act, and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Regulations require stringent security measures to protect sensitive data, but organizations with diverse IT infrastructures may struggle to consistently implement and maintain access controls and encryption, risking data mishandling and unauthorized access.Â
Cross-Border Data Transfer
Global organizations face significant compliance and legal challenges with international data transfers. Some regulations, such as export control regulations, impose restrictions on the transfer of data across borders, complicating data movement among regions while complying with localization requirements. Certain regulations mandate local data storage, hindering centralized data management. Organizations must persistently protect sensitive data and continually adapt their data transfer mechanisms to comply with evolving regulations to mitigate risks of unauthorized access or breaches during data transfer.Â
Audit and Reporting Requirements
Regulations often require organizations to maintain detailed records for transparency and accountability, aiding auditors in assessing internal controls and the responsible use of resources. Yet, effectively managing and analyzing real-time data activities at a low cost can be challenging, especially in large organizations with vast amounts of data. Moreover, human review of audit logs may overlook subtle or sophisticated security threats. Streamlining reporting and audit processes is crucial to prevent delays between data collection and security incident analysis.Â
Ensure Regulatory Compliance with Data-Centric Security
To address the challenges surrounding the need-to-know, cross-border data transfers and audit and reporting requirements, organizations need to implement a comprehensive and proactive approach to data security that contains the following elements:Â
- Unified Policy Platform​
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommends a dynamic authorization policy engine using attribute-based access control (ABAC) for real-time, automated decisions based on attributes and policies. This centralized approach ensures consistent rule enforcement across diverse systems, facilitating flexible access right adjustments on the fly without customization and manual procedures. This enhances scalability, security, and enables centralized auditing and reporting.Â
- Data-Centric Security Enforcement ​
Data-centric security controls ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and availability, using granular access controls for automated, real-time, need-to-know access based on sensitivity. Data obfuscation and segregation policies restrict access to authorized users, aiding compliance with data privacy regulations. Additionally, digital rights management (DRM) safeguards shared digital information persistently, preventing unauthorized access regardless of location or recipients.Â
- Automate & Prevent ​
A policy engine evaluates policies dynamically based on real-time attributes, automating the enforcement of security controls based on specific context of data access or use. By continuously monitoring real-time events, data access patterns, and consolidating data activity logs, the policy engine strengthens data governance, ensuring compliance to evolving regulations and minimize non-compliance risks.Â
- Real-time Logging and Visibility​ ​
An information system consolidates real-time data activities from multiple sources onto a centralized platform, providing a comprehensive view of the data activities and streamlining the auditing and reporting processes for organizations. This enables efficient monitoring, analysis, and reporting on various aspects of data and applications, enhancing compliance visibility and security while preventing wrongful disclosures.Â
NextLabs Solution
CloudAz Unified Policy Platform
CloudAz is a Zero Trust unified policy platform that centralizes administration of attribute-based policies with real-time enforcement of data-centric security controls. Whenever an access request is made, the CloudAz policy engine, Policy Controller, evaluates the authorization policies using attribute values obtained from attribute sources as defined in policies. CloudAz enables access rights to be updated on the fly via policy whenever there is a change in regulatory requirements, without custom code and manual procedures, streamlining compliance and reducing the cost of security management.Â
Application Enforcer
NextLabs’ Application Enforcer is an out-of-the-box policy enforcer that seamlessly applies security policies across enterprise and cloud applications. NextLabs Application Enforcer for SAP and NextLabs Application Enforcer for SharePoint enforces entitlement and data security policies to provide a more granular level of information governance and access controls, ensuring that only authorized users can view, edit, create, and delete data in SAP and SharePoint. This prevents data loss and wrongful disclosure, while enabling secure collaboration and automation of data security and compliance procedures. Â
Application Enforcer
NextLabs’ Application Enforcer is an out-of-the-box policy enforcer that seamlessly applies security policies across enterprise and cloud applications. NextLabs Application Enforcer for SAP and NextLabs Application Enforcer for SharePoint enforces entitlement and data security policies to provide a more granular level of information governance and access controls, ensuring that only authorized users can view, edit, create, and delete data in SAP and SharePoint. This prevents data loss and wrongful disclosure, while enabling secure collaboration and automation of data security and compliance procedures. Â
Data Access Enforcer (DAE) Data-Level Security Controls
NextLabs’ DAE enforces “need-to-know” data access at runtime using fine-grained attribute-based policies. DAE secures access and protects critical data using real-time segregation and masking controls. The fields and records are dynamically segregated to be viewed only by authorized users with permitted access and original fields can be hidden with modified content to ensure confidential data is protected even when the file is shared with unauthorized users. DAE also balances enterprise data access and safeguards sensitive information to maintain data privacy, compliance, and competitiveness.Â
SkyDRM Digital Rights Management
NextLabs’ SkyDRM provides persistent control of access and usage of digital information stored in files throughout its lifecycle, both in transit and at rest. It dynamically determines access rights based on data classification, user attributes, and environmental factors, applying automated rights protection through encryption and authorization policies for various file formats, such as PDF, JPG and various CAD formats. This enables secure data sharing of structured and unstructured data, enhances compliance visibility, and facilitates monitoring and auditing of data usage across borders and partner networks.Â
CloudAz Report Server
CloudAz centralized audit and reporting capabilities streamline compliance reporting and security control audits. CloudAz centrally logs real-time user and data access activity, providing accountability and transparency. The audit log provides insights into security gaps, enabling corrective actions and disclosure of violations during reporting. By incorporating a message feature that prompts user validation for risky actions, policy violation is mitigated while educating and training unaware users. This reduces compliance costs by improving the efficiency of data access monitoring and auditing.Â
CloudAz Report Server
CloudAz centralized audit and reporting capabilities streamline compliance reporting and security control audits. CloudAz centrally logs real-time user and data access activity, providing accountability and transparency. The audit log provides insights into security gaps, enabling corrective actions and disclosure of violations during reporting. By incorporating a message feature that prompts user validation for risky actions, policy violation is mitigated while educating and training unaware users. This reduces compliance costs by improving the efficiency of data access monitoring and auditing.Â
