VCDPA

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Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA)

Regulation: Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act
Abbreviation: VCDPA
Governs these parties: all websites, companies, and organizations that do business in Virginia, or that produce products or services targeted to residents of Virginia
Enforced by: Office of the Attorney General (OAG)

The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) enforces the consumer’s right to opt-out of having personal data collected, processed, and sold, requiring companies and organizations to obtain prior consent from end-users if they collect or process sensitive personal data.

Like the EU GDPR rules for user consent, the VCDPA also prohibits consent banners (or “cookie banners”) from having pre-ticked boxes, making it clear that end-user consent must be “freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous.”

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

How it relates to cybersecurity

Virginia’s VCDPA guides businesses to:

ensure that their personal data processing operates based on transparency, security, and consent
discover how personal data is processed, map out how and to whom they share personal data with third parties, and manage how personal data is stored as well as protect personal data from breaches and abuse
establish security practices for their data collection and processing

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 VCDPA 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	Protects against 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