What is uRISQ?
Frequently Asked Questions
uRISQ is not a household name yet, so you will be asked, What is uRISQ? uRISQ is a suite of solutions that help businesses develop a privacy and security program. Customers have an expectation that their data is being kept secure, and regulators require that a program is in place. uRISQ is the answer.
What is Threat Scanning?
Threat Scanning is the first step to you understanding where you are most vulnerable to the outside world. We spend time locking the doors and windows when you leave the office, but you have no idea if a cybercriminal can enter your systems through your website or your firewall. uRISQ vulnerability scanning will scan your website and firewall every month and make you aware of any new vulnerabilities or changes, allowing you to lock those doors and windows.
What is Privacy Assessment?
The top 5 causes of data breaches are weak and stolen credentials, application vulnerabilities, malware, malicious insiders, and insider errors or accidental data loss. The primary way to mitigate your risk is to institute plans, policies, and procedures within your organization. Developing and instituting these plans chip away at the likelihood of data loss.
uRISQ Privacy Assessment provides editable templates for plans and policies and helps you maintain them on an annual basis. uRISQ helps your organization follow best practices that decrease your risk of data loss. uRISQ documents your progress and shows that your program is maturing year over year.
What is Data Breach Support?
Data Breach Support is the foundation of your Incident Response program. If and when you experience a data breach, uRISQ Data Breach Support is available to your 24/7. A Certified Privacy Professional will be assigned to your event and will help you determine if your breach event is a reportable event. Most importantly, your dedicated privacy professional will inform you of all the agencies and consumers you are required to report to and provide report formats and best practices. You are not alone when you are going through a breach when you have uRISQ.
What is Data Subject Access Request?
Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) helps organizations support the right to inquire, access, correct, and delete records an organization/business holds on the individual. This process can be regulated but, more importantly, time-consuming.
uRISQ DSAR provides an easy-to-use form that you can post on your website to collect requests from your customers. It is configurable to only allow those that have legal requirements to fulfill their requests, such as residents of the European Union, California, and Virginia, or you can offer transparency to all your customers, showing them that you want to prove your commitment to their privacy rights. uRISQ DSAR will help with request submission, ID verification, task management, and regulatory timeline management. Never lose a request or fail to fulfill one within the regulatory timeline.
What is Vendor Management?
Third parties/Vendors are major causes of data loss. Businesses rely on third parties to process data so they can focus on their organization’s core competence. Ultimately it is your responsibility to select the vendor and that the vendor is following the data privacy and security guidelines you publish in your privacy notice/policy.
uRISQ Vendor Management is an easy-to-use tool to help you manage the vendors to that you send personal information to. The ones you rely on to safely process the data you send to them. With annual assessments and audits, you are able to manage your risk that the vendor you selected is continuing to handle the data you send them at the same level as you promised to your customers.