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Breach Register

What is Breach Register?

A documented log of all personal data breaches including their nature, affected individuals, consequences, and remedial actions taken.

Privacy and Data Protection

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as breach register. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on breach register

Requirements naming breach register across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

Chapter IV (Articles 27-29) Security and Risk. Article 27 Security of Processing - GDPR Article 32 transposition: appropriate technical + organisational measures considering state of the art + costs + nature + scope + context + purposes + risk;

ICELAND-Act90-Chap4-Security-BreachNotification-DPIA-Personuvernd-72hr · Iceland Act 90/2018 - Chapter IV Security of Processing + Breach Notification + DPIA (Articles 27-29)

Sections 10-11 of DPDP Act 2023 establish enhanced obligations on entities designated as Significant Data Fiduciaries (SDFs). Section 10 Significant Data Fiduciary: Central Government may notify Data Fiduciary or class of Data Fiduciaries as SDF having regard...

DPDP-SignificantDataFiduciary-SDF-Sec10-DPO-IndependentAuditor-DPIA-Algorithmic · DPDP Act Sections 10-11 + Significant Data Fiduciary (SDF) + Data Protection Officer + Independent Data Auditor + DPIA + Algorithmic Software Audit + Privacy by Design + Records of Processing Activities

Articles 39 + 46 of UU PDP establish security + breach notification obligations. Article 39: Personal Data Controller shall protect personal data processed through implementation of appropriate technical + organisational + and physical security measures + comm...

IDPdp-Security-BreachNotification-72Hour-Art39-Art46-Encryption-Pseudonymisation-Records-IR · Indonesia PDP Article 39 + Article 46 + Reasonable Security + Encryption + Pseudonymisation + Personal Data Breach Notification 3x24 Hours (72 Hours) to DPA + Data Subjects + IR Plan + Records

Implement Security Principle 4 + Retention Principle 5 + Data Integrity Principle 6 + 2024 Amendment breach notification regime. Security measures appropriate to harm risk and sensitivity including encryption at rest and in transit + access controls + activity...

MY-PDPA-Security-Principle-Retention-Data-Integrity-Breach-Notification-72-Hour-Section-12B-2024-Amendment · Malaysia PDPA Security + Retention + Data Integrity + Breach Notification 72 Hour + Section 12B + 2024 Amendment

Implement technical and organisational security measures + breach notification process aligned with GDPR Articles 32-34 + national CIRT coordination + NIS2 Cyber Security Act 2023.

MT-DPA-Security-Breach-Notification-IDPC-72-Hour-CIRT-Malta-MITA-NIS2-Cyber-Security-Act-2023 · Malta DPA Security + Breach Notification + IDPC 72 Hour + CIRT Malta + MITA + NIS2 + Cyber Security Act 2023

Questions people ask about breach register

What is Breach Register?
A documented log of all personal data breaches including their nature, affected individuals, consequences, and remedial actions taken.
Why is Breach Register important for compliance?
Breach Register is a key concept in Privacy and Data Protection. Understanding breach register helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Breach Register?
Breach Register appears in the requirement text of Greece Law 4624/2019 - Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) Implementation Act, Iceland Data Protection and Processing of Personal Data Act (Act No. 90/2018), India DPDP Act, Indonesia PDP Law, Malaysia PDPA 2010. Across these standards we have identified 6 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Breach Register?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how breach register applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.