The EU Data Protection Code of Conduct for Cloud Service Providers - A
guide to compliance
Formally founded in 2017, the EU Data Protection Code of Conduct for
Cloud Service Providers (otherwise known as the EU Cloud Code of
Conduct; the Code) is a voluntary code of conduct created specifically
to support GDPR compliance within the B2B (business-to-business) Cloud
industry. The EU Commission, the Article 29 Working Party (now the
European Data Protection Board (EDPB)), the EU Directorate-General for
Justice and Consumers, and Cloud-industry leaders have all contributed
to its development, resulting in a robust framework that recognises the
unique requirements of the Cloud industry.
Cloud providers must ensure that their services - which by design
involve accessing and transferring data across the Internet, exposing it
to far greater risk than data stored and processed within an
organisation's internal network - meet or exceed the GDPR's requirements
in order to provide the security and privacy that the market expects.
Organisations can achieve this via compliance to the EU Cloud Code of
Conduct.
The EU Cloud Code of Conduct has already been adopted by major Cloud
service organisations, including:
- Microsoft;
- Oracle;
- Salesforce;
- IBM;
- Google Cloud;
- Dropbox; and
- Alibaba Cloud.
Public and business focus on information security and data protection
continues to increase in the face of a constantly changing threat
landscape and ever-more stringent regulation, and compliance to
initiatives such as the EU Cloud Code of Conduct demonstrates to current
and potential customers that your organisation is taking data privacy
seriously, as well as strengthens your organisation's overall approach
to information security management, and defences against data breaches.
The EU Data Protection Code of Conduct for Cloud Service Providers
provides guidance on how to implement the Code within your organisation.
It explores the objectives of the Code, and how compliance can be
achieved with or without a pre-existing ISMS (information security
management system) within the organisation.
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