Show evidence of compliance with regulatory statues and internal audits with help from IBM QRadar SIEM
As cyberattacks become more widespread, cybersecurity compliance becomes increasingly important—not only to safeguard data subjects’ rights and their personal data. It is also essential to assure clients and supervisory authorities of your commitment to customer data privacy.
However, ensuring compliance often requires cybersecurity teams and your data controller to act across complex sets of standards, compliance requirements and data processing regulations that differ by industry and country. Automation can help monitor compliance reporting, manage data subjects’ rights and protect personal data to align cybersecurity with compliance requirements like the General Data Protection Regulation in Europe and similar frameworks.
IBM recognizes the critical importance of compliance and up-to-date certifications for clients relying on its products. IBM® QRadar® SIEM compliance solutions help reduce the impact of data breaches and manage complex compliance requirements, including GDPR compliance for EU member states.
These solutions deliver results through a free compliance extension that processes SIEM log data and supports most regulatory standards. In addition, they offer automated compliance reporting tailored to the specific standards your organization needs to meet.
Noncompliance with data privacy laws like the GDPR compliance can be costly. QRadar SIEM compliance extensions can help your company with data processing and manage personal data privacy to be compliant in a shifting compliance landscape.
The global average cost of a data breach in 2023 was USD 4.45 million, a 15% increase over 3 years.¹
The average cost of a data breach for organizations with high noncompliance was USD 5.05 million, 12.6% or USD 560 thousand more than the 2023 average data breach cost.3
QRadar SIEM adheres to rigorous security, availability and data privacy frameworks. It also complies with a range of industry-standard certifications and governance, such as the GDPR compliance requirements and other data protection directives. For organizations handling all types of sensitive, high-risk data, including personal data, it is crucial to protect the privacy of data subjects and ensure compliance. These standards also include:
- Common criteria
- FIPS140-2 (level 1)
- STIG/Hardening
- ISO 27001**
- Section 508 VPAT reports
**ISO 27001 operational certification available for QROC (SaaS). Software deployments are reliant on customer operational practices.
Use other extensions to implement retention and detection policies and enforce security measures that help meet compliance obligations such as GDPR and other regulatory requirements. These extensions support:
- The General Data Protection Regulation extension (GDPR)* helps organizations with personal data processing of EU residents. It also supports maintaining the privacy of data subjects in accordance with the GDPR regulation and ensures compliance within the European Union.
- Federal Information Security Management Act extension (FISMA) helps to streamline your FISMA compliance reporting, respond to data breach notifications and meet compliance requirements.
- Sarbanes-Oxley extension (SOX) helps to maintain a SOX-compliant environment, with security measures that apply to all data types, including processing of personal data.
- HIPAA extension helps to safeguard the data privacy of personal health information and meet compliance requirements for the protection of personal data.
- ISO 27001 extension** helps align operations around data protection and data transfer with the compliance requirements of the ISO 27001 standards.
- The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard extension (PCI DSS) helps you meet compliance requirements and safeguard against personal data breaches in payment card transactions.
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act extension (GLBA) strengthens organizational measures for adhering to the compliance requirements of this data protection law.
- California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)*
IBM updates the Content Extensions to help you stay up to date with the latest compliance requirements.
*Contact your sales representative for CCPA and the GDPR compliance requirements as these requirements differ for each customer.
**ISO 27001 operational certification available for QROC (SaaS). Software deployments are reliant on customer operational practices.
Some regulations require breach notification within days after discovering a data privacy breach. Data security teams can integrate data privacy reporting tasks into their incident response process to better collaborate with legal teams and data protection officer to meet compliance requirements with IBM SOAR. SOAR, fully integrated with QRadar, includes an incident response solution that supports more than 180 data privacy reporting regulations worldwide.
The compliance content extension delivers real-time rule sets for log data, supporting enforcement of broad compliance and policy standards. It also delivers daily, weekly and monthly reporting on authentication activities, attack and target summaries, top malware activities, DoS activities, exploit activities and more. It helps meet compliance requirements of data privacy laws like the GDPR compliance, SOX, European Union regulations and other regulatory requirements.
The GDPR compliance content pack, based on the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), simplifies IBM custom properties. It uses placeholders that organizations can replace with specific log source properties. This approach facilitates checking off items on the GDPR compliance checklist for data controllers and meets legal obligations for mandates for EU citizens in EU member states.
These controls apply to the data subjects’ rights for access, rectify, erasure, data portability and more. You can download other content extensions that include custom properties functions with these names or you can create your own.
The HIPAA content extension provides rules and reports content to implement Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) controls designed to safeguard health-related personal data. The content extension contains daily and weekly reporting on the remote access activity, top targets, top malware activity, top spam activity, traffic summaries and account management. The QRadar HIPAA Content Extension can be used to complement the QRadar Compliance Content Extension.
The IBM QRadar PCI compliance content extension provides rules and 30+ reports to monitor PCI compliance of your critical servers with payment card data. Reports include:
- PCI Compliance failures
- Access to cardholder and trusted systems
- User accounts additions by admin
- Traffic to trusted segments
- Incident response (offense summary)
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Footnotes
1, 2, 3 Cost of Data Breach Report 2024, IBM