Cloud Pak System Considerations for GDPR Readiness
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Notice
This document is intended to help you in your preparations for GDPR readiness. It provides information about features of IBM Cloud Pak System that you can configure, and aspects of the product’s use, that you should consider to help your organization with GDPR readiness. This information is not an exhaustive list, due to the many ways that clients can choose and configure features, and the large variety of ways that the product can be used in itself and with third-party applications and systems.
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GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been adopted by the European Union ("EU") and applies from May 25, 2018.
- New and enhanced rights for individuals
- Widened definition of personal data
- New obligations for processors
- Potential for significant financial penalties for non-compliance
- Compulsory data breach notification
Product Configuration – Considerations for GDPR Readiness
The following sections provide considerations for configuring IBM Cloud Pak System to help your organization with GDPR readiness.
Data Life Cycle
The Cloud Pak System system administrator or security administrator creates a user by providing a user ID, email address, full name, and password to grant the user access to the system. This personal data is stored in the database on the client's hardware and can be fully managed by the system administrator or security administrator and edited by the user.
Information on managing users is documented in the Cloud Pak System IBM Documentation. For additional details, see Administering users, user groups, and security.
Personal data, including IP addresses, session IDs, user IDs, webpage URLs, and cookie names, may exist within operating system and application logs. The data within these logs is captured automatically as part of the offering and is beyond the control of the client. The logs will be retained on disk provided there is sufficient space available. As additional space is needed, older log files will be removed. The log files may not be modified or deleted by the client.
The purpose of the system log files is for use during troubleshooting situations. As needed, the log files may be collected and downloaded from the offering for transfer to IBM Support. The log files are not included in the system backups and are therefore constrained to the management node unless involved in the process of collecting logs for troubleshooting activity.
Information on system logs is documented in the Cloud Pak System IBM Documentation. For additional details, see Viewing and downloading log files.
- Public comments area on pages in the Cloud Pak System community on IBM Developer.
- Public comments area on pages of Cloud Pak System documentation in IBM Documentation
- Public comments in the Cloud Pak System space of dWAnswers
- Feedback forms in the Cloud Pak System community
Typically, only the client name and email address are used, to enable personal replies for the subject of the contact, and the use of personal data conforms to the IBM Online Privacy Statement.
Data Collection
For more information, see Data Life Cycle.
Data Storage
Personal data will be contained within backups of the offerings. Such personal data will include the personal data associated with user accounts stored within the database. TheIBM Documentation provides information pertaining to creating the backups within the Cloud Pak System offering.
The backup feature enables the client to transfer the backup archives to an external location. However, management of any external backup archives is beyond the scope of the offering. The client should implement a set of established 'best practices' for managing and securing such backup files. Information on managing backups is documented in the IBM Cloud Pak System IBM Documentation. For additional details, see Managing backup and restore.
Data Access
General security measures (for example, disk encryption, physical and remote access) either directly implemented by the offering or suggested actions for the client when preparing to deploy the offering are documented in the IBM Documentation. For additional information on security measures available in Cloud Pak System, see Security overview.
For user account data, read or write access can be given to specific users. For additional information on user accounts and security roles, see Understanding security roles for Cloud Pak System.
Data Processing
General security measures are directly implemented by the offering.
Data Deletion
Personal data associated with user accounts (as described in Data Life Cycle) can be fully managed by the system administrator or security administrator, including deletion. Users are not permitted to delete the personal data associated with the accounts. Information on managing users is documented in the Cloud Pak System IBM Documentation. For additional details, see Administering users, user groups, and security.
Personal data, including IP addresses, session IDs, and user IDs, may exist within operating system and application logs. The log files may not be modified or deleted by the client. The logs will be retained on disk provided there is sufficient space available. As additional space is needed, older log files will be removed. The log files may not be modified or deleted by the client. Information on system logs is documented in the Cloud Pak System IBM Documentation. For additional details, see Viewing and downloading log files.
Data Monitoring
Cloud Pak System does not monitor operating system or application logs, which are collected by the system and remain on the management node as space permits. When needed for troubleshooting, logs may be downloaded from the console. Typically, such files remain local to the offering and cannot be managed or altered by end users or administrators. Administrators may be able to review some log files (for troubleshooting purposes and without context of any personal data contained within) via the offering console. For more complex troubleshooting situations, such logs may be collected and downloaded from the offering for transmission to IBM Support. For additional information on system logs, see Viewing and downloading log files.
Responding to Data Subject Rights
Cloud Pak System meets the following data subject rights: right to access, modify, forgotten, and portability. For additional information on managing user accounts, see Managing system users.