Understanding GDPR responsibilities

Key GDPR themes for vendors

• Clear purposes for processing personal data and appropriate legal bases.
• Data minimization and retention practices that match those purposes.
• Controls to protect personal data in transit and at rest.
• Support for data subject rights such as access, correction, and deletion.

Many of these responsibilities are shared between you and your customers, so clarity in contracts and documentation is important.

What customers look for

• Data protection addenda that describe your role and responsibilities.
• Information about where data is stored and which subprocessors you use.
• Evidence that you have security controls appropriate to the data you process.

Cyberneza can help you align your security narrative and controls with privacy expectations, even if you also work with dedicated legal or privacy counsel.

Using Vanta alongside GDPR efforts

Vanta focuses primarily on security controls, but many of those controls support GDPR requirements as well. By keeping an accurate inventory of systems and monitoring key safeguards, you can give customers more confidence in how personal data is handled.

• Track where personal data lives in your environment.
• Monitor access control and logging around those systems.
• Use evidence from Vanta to support security portions of privacy reviews.

How Cyberneza can help

• Clarify your role as a controller or processor in common customer scenarios.
• Align your security posture with privacy commitments.
• Support you during security and privacy questionnaires from customers.

When GDPR starts showing up

If more customers are asking about GDPR, data residency, or subprocessors, we can help you organize your answers and identify security-focused improvements that will make those conversations smoother.