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🔒 Regulatory Compliance

Use Control Core policies and audit to enforce and demonstrate compliance with regulations and standards. This page outlines compliance use cases and summarizes regional frameworks (Canada, USA, South America, EU, UK, Asia). Control Core does not claim to hold specific certifications; wording uses "supports compliance with" or "aligns with" where relevant.

📌 Definition

Regulatory compliance with Control Core means:

  • Defining policy rules at the Policy Administration Point (PAP) that encode regulatory or organizational requirements.
  • Enforcing those rules at the Policy Enforcement Point (PEP/Bouncer) so access and data handling align with policy.
  • Using real-time context from Policy Information Points (PIPs) so decisions reflect current state (e.g. consent, location, role).
  • Recording decisions and policy evaluations for audit trails and reporting.

All of this is kept at a concept level—no internal architecture or component names are required to understand the value.

How it flows

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Compliance rules live in the Control Plane (PAP) and sync to the Bouncer. Each request is evaluated with PIP context; allow/deny decisions are logged for audit and reporting.

💡 Use Cases

  • Data residency: Restrict where data is processed or stored by policy (e.g. EU data only in approved regions), with enforcement at the Bouncer and audit of access.
  • Consent and purpose limitation: Use PIPs to feed consent and purpose into policies; allow or deny access and data exposure based on current consent and stated purpose.
  • Access logging and reporting: Every policy decision can be logged; logs support compliance reporting, investigations, and evidence for regulators.
  • Role- and attribute-based restrictions: Policies enforce who can access what (by role, department, clearance, or other attributes from PIPs), supporting least-privilege and regulated data access.

📞 How Control Core Helps

  • Central policy (PAP): One place to define and version compliance-related rules; changes propagate to all enforcement points.
  • Enforcement at PEP (Bouncer): Requests are allowed or denied in real time based on policy; no need to scatter compliance logic across applications.
  • Context from PIP: Integrate identity providers, HR, consent systems, and other data sources so policies use up-to-date context (e.g. employment status, training, consent flags).
  • Decisions from PDP: Consistent evaluation logic; decisions are logged for audit.
  • Audit trails and reporting: Logs of policy evaluations and access support regulatory reporting and internal oversight.

🔒 Regional Compliance and Certifications (Summary)

Below are common frameworks by region. This is informational; your organization is responsible for determining which apply and how to achieve compliance.

Canada

  • PIPEDA — Personal information protection and consent.
  • FINTRAC — Financial transactions and reporting (e.g. AML).
  • OSFI — Financial institution guidelines and prudential requirements.

United States

  • HIPAA — Health information privacy and security (where applicable).
  • SOC 2 — Security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, privacy (type and scope vary).
  • PCI-DSS — Payment card data (where applicable).
  • FedRAMP — Federal cloud security (where applicable).
  • CCPA / state privacy laws — Consumer privacy and rights (e.g. California, other states).

South America

  • LGPD (Brazil) — General data protection and lawful basis for processing.
  • Local data protection laws — Other countries may have specific requirements; consult local counsel.

European Union

  • GDPR — Lawful basis, purpose limitation, data minimization, rights of data subjects, cross-border transfers, and accountability. Control Core policies and audit can support technical and organizational measures.

United Kingdom

  • UK GDPR — Post-Brexit UK data protection regime; similar principles to EU GDPR with UK-specific guidance.

Asia

  • PDPA (Singapore) — Personal data protection and consent.
  • PIPL (China) — Personal information protection (where applicable).
  • APPI (Japan) — Act on the Protection of Personal Information and related guidelines.
  • Other jurisdictions — Various countries have or are adopting data protection and sector-specific rules; align with local requirements.

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