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Ireland Data Protection Act 2018

National data-protection law: technical safeguards, records of processing software, third-party/processor accountability, and integrity controls.

National data-protection law: technical safeguards, records of processing software, third-party/processor accountability, and integrity controls.

Short nameIE DPA
RegionEurope
Country or scopeIreland
SectorPrivacy
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How Safeguard covers IE DPA

  • Scan requirements: 6, all decided by a scan.
  • Controls: the scan requirements below.
  • Automated tests: none map to it directly. You can link any automated test to its controls yourself (how).
  • Policy templates: 22 from the standard set.

How each kind of coverage works, and what the readiness score counts: Compliance frameworks.

What a scan checks

Each scan of a product checks these 6 requirements against what the scan found, including the product's software inventory (SBOM).

RequirementWhat Safeguard checksDecided by
IE-DPA-A32 Security of ProcessingTechnical and organisational measures appropriate to the risk must safeguard systems that process personal data; verifiable integrity hashes on deployed software components evidence this control (GDPR Art. 32, as given effect in Ireland by the Data Protection Act 2018).Scan
IE-DPA-71 Integrity and Confidentiality of ProcessingPersonal data must be processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing, which requires processing software to carry known, assessable versions (DPA 2018 s.71(1)(f); GDPR Art. 5(1)(f)).Scan
IE-DPA-A30 Records of Processing SystemsControllers and processors must maintain records of processing activities, which presupposes an inventory of the software systems and components through which personal data flows (GDPR Art. 30; the Data Protection Act 2018).Scan
IE-DPA-A28 Processor and Vendor AccountabilityProcessing carried out on behalf of a controller may only use processors offering sufficient guarantees, so third-party software components in the processing chain must have identifiable suppliers (GDPR Art. 28; the Data Protection Act 2018).Scan
IE-DPA-A33 Breach-Notification ReadinessPersonal data breaches must be notified to the supervisory authority without undue delay and where feasible within 72 hours, which requires affected software components to be rapidly and unambiguously identifiable (GDPR Art. 33; the Data Protection Act 2018).Scan
IE-DPA-75 Technical and Organisational MeasuresControllers must implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure and demonstrate compliant processing; unambiguous, pinned component versions in processing systems are a baseline such measure (DPA 2018 s.75).Scan

Policy templates

All 22 from the standard set, adapted to IE DPA.

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