ADPPA

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American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA)

Regulation: American Data Privacy and Protection Act
Abbreviation: ADPPA
Governs these parties: all organizations that treat consumer data;
this applies to most entities, including nonprofits and common carriers
Enforced by: the Federal Trade Commission is the first body responsible
for enforcing the ADPPA. However, it will do so by establishing a new
bureau within the Commission

The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) operates at the federal level in the United States with a global focus on drafting and enacting stricter data privacy regulations. ADPPA aims to enforce comprehensive cybersecurity protection and data minimization, meaning organizations should only ingest data for “necessary” purposes, thereby protecting consumers’ rights to control their personal data. Additionally, ADPPA also enforces significant protections against targeted advertising to minors and targeted advertising based on “sensitive data”.

ADPPA applies rules and regulations to technologies that enable the collection of data and to businesses and organizations that collect consumer data, including attorneys and law firms.

The rest of this document is designed to help our community understand ADPPA better by outlining the following information:

How it relates to cybersecurity

ADPPA governs how companies across different industries treat consumer data, ensuring duties of loyalty, transparency, consumer control and consent, youth protections, third-party collecting entities, civil rights and algorithms, and data security.

Section 207 of the ADPPA covers entities and service providers that develop algorithms to collect, process, or transfer covered data or publicly available information and would be required to conduct algorithm design evaluations prior to deploying the algorithms in interstate commerce.

In addition, any large data holder that uses an algorithm “that may cause potential harm to an individual,” and uses such algorithms to collect, process, or transfer covered data, would also be required to conduct an algorithm impact assessment on an annual basis.

How Coro handles compliance for you

At Coro, we’ve done the research thoroughly and regularly track updates to the regulation in order to ensure that you are implementing best practices in the areas we cover when we’re protecting your systems.

The following table outlines the requirements described by ADPPA that Coro implements in conjunction with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace.

Disclaimer: this table does not guarantee that your organization is compliant with these regulations. As a best practice, seek assistance from a certified auditor when completing your analysis.

Category	Requirement	How Coro does it
Cloud Security & Privacy	Malware and ransomware injection	Detects and remediates malware and ransomware files in cloud drives
	Cloud app account takeover	Monitors access to cloud apps and user/admin activities on them
	Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)	Enforces multi-factor authentication on cloud app access
	Data governance over cloud drives	Data loss prevention (DLP) for regulatory and business-sensitive data
	Data encryption	Safeguards stored sensitive information against unauthorized use and leakage
	Audit and activity logs	Archives all system activities for a period of seven years, supporting referencing and auditing
Email Security & Privacy	Generic and spear phishing	Detects and remediates social engineering attacks based on email content analysis
	Identity spoofing	Detects and remediates social engineering attacks based on adaptive identity monitoring
	Malware and ransomware injection	Detects and remediates malware and ransomware in email attachments
	Embedded links to malicious URLs	Detects and remediates embedded links to malicious servers
	Email account takeover	Detects and remediates email attacks from within the organization
	DLP over outgoing/incoming email	Encrypts emails before they are sent, which are then decrypted by their recipients at the other end.
	Encryption of email during transmission	Encrypts email during transit between the sender and the recipient
	Business email compromise (BEC)	Scans business email, detects and protects against social engineering attacks
	Audit and activity logs	Archives all system activities for a period of seven years, supporting referencing and auditing
Endpoint Security & Privacy	Antivirus (AV)	Detects and remediates files with high-risk content based on their signatures
	ATP (NGAV)	Detects and remediates processes exhibiting high-risk behaviors with behavioral analysis
	Device security posture	Detects security vulnerabilities on endpoint devices and enforces device security posture
	Data recovery	Stores local snapshots of data
	DLP on endpoint devices	Provides data loss prevention (DLP) for business-sensitive data and data defined as sensitive by regulations
	Audit and activity logs	Archives all system activities for a period of seven years, supporting referencing and auditing
Data Governance	Data distribution governance and role management	Provides data loss prevention (DLP) for data defined as sensitive by regulations
	Security and business-specific data monitoring	Monitors sensitive data according to business and security best practices, including passwords, certificates, source code, proprietary data, etc.
	PII monitoring	Monitors for personally identifiable information, or PII, including information that can be used to identify, contact, or distinguish one unique person from another
	Audit and activity logs	Archives all system activities for a period of seven years, supporting referencing and auditing