The entity obtains commitments from vendors and other third parties with access to personal information to notify the entity in the event of actual or suspected unauthorized disclosures of personal information. Such notifications are reported to appropriate personnel and acted on in accordance with established incident response procedures to meet the entity’s objectives related to privacy.
Points of focus:
- Remediates Misuse of Personal Information by a Third Party
- Reports Actual or Suspected Unauthorized Disclosures
The organization must document all personal data breaches and their consequences and the corrective actions taken, regardless of the action ultimately resulting from the breach.
Failure to comply with the documentation obligation or notification is contrary to GDPR and may lead to sanctions defined on the regulation.
The organization shall define the procedures for reporting security breaches in the supply chain. The process must take into account all kinds of roles in the supply chain, whether we are the customer of the end product or one supplier in the chain.
Policies shall take into account agreements with partners and customers and their commitments regarding the reporting obligations of both parties.
The processors of personal data (e.g. providers of data systems, other partners using our employee or customer data) and the agreements related to the processing of personal data have been documented. The documentation includes e.g.:
Data processing agreements bind the actions of a personal data processing partner.
It can be important for us to require an important partner to take care of e.g. ensuring the confidentiality requirements for its personnel and restricting the use of other processors of personal data in connection with our data.
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