GDPR legislation is aimed at protecting the personal data of European Union (EU) citizens. GDPR applies to any company doing business with an EU organization or an individual. Stiff fines are imposed on organizations for non-compliance, which could be up to 4% of the organization’s worldwide annual revenue.

Reduce external threats – As attackers continually refine their methodologies, GDPR mandates that organizations keep up with evolving threats by employing state-of-the-art technologies capable of scaling with the problem (articles 25 and 32). Exabeam’s Smart Timelines leverage behavioral analysis to continuously baseline normal behavior of all users and entities on the network. Any deviations from normal behavior are instantly flagged and assigned a risk score. This frees organizations from constantly writing and updating correlation rules to track evolving threats. By gathering all related events into a cohesive timeline, Exabeam helps organizations scale their detection, investigation, and response practices in ways previously unimaginable.

Reduce internal threats – Threats originating from within the organization are often the most difficult to detect, as insiders may have intimate knowledge of systems and processes. GDPR directs organizations to carefully consider the risk of unauthorized access, alteration, destruction, or exfiltration of personal data at every stage of handling (Article 24). Identity and network access controls help organizations create a system protection framework but fail to account for the innumerable ways insiders accidently or maliciously disrupt these plans. Due to the prohibitive costs of storing logs in most products, organizations “cherry-pick” logs or ignore chatty logs such as endpoint detection and response solutions (EDR) leaving most insider actions untracked. Using Behavioral Analysis, Exabeam establishes baseline behavior to uncover abnormalities and deviations. Whether it’s a privilege escalation, or a related data exfiltration event, all threats are readily identified giving organizations unprecedented reduction of internal threats.

Easy reporting with out-of-the-box compliance reports – To achieve GDPR compliance, organizations need to demonstrate that they monitor critical infrastructure holding personal data of EU citizens.

Using a powerful compliance and forensics reporting engine, Exabeam generates a series of built-in, GDPR-specific reports, that help reduce the time to prove compliance to auditors.

Protect employee Personally Identifiable Information (PII) – A critical GDPR requirement is to protect employee PII from unwarranted access. Exabeam provides role-based access control (RBAC) that can be used to enforce PII data masking.

With Exabeam, risk-based actions representing potential network security incidents are surfaced to analysts—and ultimately to data privacy officers (DPOs) for de-masking when a credible risk has been identified. This maintains individual privacy and reduces false positives that can quickly overtax your security team.