CTDPA

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Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA)

Regulation: Connecticut Data Privacy Act
Abbreviation: CTDPA
Governs these parties: all legal entities conducting business in Connecticut or delivering products or services targeted to Connecticut residents
Enforced by: the office of the Attorney General (OAG)

The Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) obligates data controllers to fulfill certain basic data protection principles, such as data minimization and purpose limitation. The collection of data has to be limited to the extent, “adequate, relevant, and necessary” for the purposes of the data processing, and personal data must not be processed for purposes that are neither reasonably necessary nor compatible with the disclosed purposes unless the consumer has consented to it.

In order to comply with the CTDPA requirements, organizations processing information on Connecticut residents or doing business in Connecticut must establish, implement, and maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical data security practices to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of personal data appropriate to the volume and nature of the personal data at hand.

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

How it relates to cybersecurity

Governed entities must establish, implement and maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical security practices to protect the confidentiality, integrity and accessibility of the personal data that they handle. These practices must take into account the volume and nature of the personal data in question.

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 CTDPA 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	Provides data loss prevention (DLP) for regulatorily and business-sensitive data
	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
	DLP over outgoing/incoming email	Encrypts emails before they are sent, which are then decrypted by their recipients at the other end.
	Business email compromise (BEC)	Scans business email, detects and protects against social engineering attacks
	Email account takeover	Email attacks from within the organization
	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
	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
	PII monitoring	Monitor for personally identifiable information, or PII, is 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