Enabling privacy compliance with Alumio

Enabling Privacy Compliance with an iPaaS

In the Digital World, the more a business grows, the more software solutions or applications it implements, and the more customers it acquires, it results in lots of customer data being stored in several places. This includes geolocation, financial details, phone numbers, personally identifiable information, and many other types of confidential customer data. Data privacy regulations legally compel modern businesses to demonstrate their ability to store and secure this data strictly, protecting it from unauthorized access, misuse, and breaches.
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According to Statista, in the first quarter of 2023, more than six million data records worldwide were exposed via data breaches.
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‍What is Privacy Compliance?

Privacy compliance refers to an organization's ability to collect, secure, and retrieve customer data in a way that adheres to laws and regulations designed to protect the confidentiality of customer information. It involves enterprises providing users with the option of what kind of data they’d like to store. And It also compels organizations to be able to deliver or delete customer data based on request.

Failing to comply with these regulations could result in financial penalties and loss of customer trust for enterprises. The bigger a business is or becomes, the more robust privacy and data protection measures they have to implement in order to protect customer information. Two of the most essential privacy regulatory standards that businesses must conform to are the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the USA’s California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This is why when you visit most websites, you get a popup asking you to choose what information you choose to share.
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‍Why do enterprises need an integration platform to be privacy compliant?

As enterprises implement new SaaS solutions and cloud apps to accelerate digital transformation efforts, their customer data gets scattered across various systems and risks getting lost or becoming inaccessible. Additionally, such businesses already have data stored within on-premises systems or other business applications they already implement. Thus, keeping track of data within all these legacy systems and new cloud applications is becoming increasingly challenging.

How poor data management affects privacy compliance

For instance, an enterprise may have one kind of customer data stored in its ERP (Enterprises Resource Planning) system and another type of customer information stored in a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system. Then there’s new customer data being generated within their e-commerce webshop, and in this way - with each new system or application implemented, data siloes start to form. This leads to what we call the IT spaghetti phenomenon, wherein the IT landscapes of businesses become an increasingly tangled mess of disconnected applications and data as their business grows. This doesn’t just affect digital growth, but it also makes it difficult to organize data across all implemented systems in order to be privacy compliant. To untangle IT ecosystems, integrate all their systems and applications, and enable privacy compliance in a scalable way, enterprises can benefit from using an “integration Platform as a Service” or “iPaaS".

As a next-gen API-driven middleware solution, the iPaaS helps businesses integrate all their systems, applications, and data sources on one platform. This centralization of integrated systems and applications makes it easier to manage data. In fact, some iPaaS solutions, such as Alumio, come designed to integrate business systems and data in a way that’s compliant with legislation like GDPR, which is considered the strictest privacy and security law in the world.
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How does the Alumio iPaaS enhance data governance and privacy compliance?

The Alumio iPaaS (integration Platform as a Service) is a cloud-native, low-code middleware solution that helps businesses integrate two or multiple systems, SaaS, cloud apps, or data sources, across on-premises and cloud environments. This includes integrating all kinds of applications and software such as e-commerce platforms, ERP systems, CRM, POS, WMS, Marketing software, and more. It provides a user-friendly interface to create, monitor, and manage these system integrations without custom code.

Centralizing all integrated systems and data on one secure cloud environment, the Alumio iPaaS ensures the highest data security standards and adheres to industry best practices. As an API-driven solution, it also enables seamless real-time data sharing between all integrated systems, unlocking or preventing data silos. The Alumio iPaaS provides 360-degree data insights and immediately detects any data breach by constantly monitoring and logging all integrated systems.

The Alumio iPaaS follows the "privacy by design" principle to provide enterprises with complete data control across all integrated systems. As such, it helps businesses comply with essential privacy regulations such as GDPR, SOC2, CCPA, HIPAA & FERPA.
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What does it mean to comply with these privacy compliance regimes? For instance, by enabling businesses with GDPR reporting tools, the iPaaS allows businesses to enhance the existing individual customer rights over their data, by allowing them: 

• The right to erasure and the right to be forgotten
• The right to have data deleted from multiple connected software
• The right to receive personal data on a user-friendly interface
• The right to notice, access, change, and object to personal data being shared
• The right to remove data from (external) sources
• The right to choose what personal information can be collected

By enabling you to govern and orchestrate data from all your integrated systems through one central integration platform, Alumio enables enterprises to swiftly retrieve/delete customer data, or comply with any of the other data privacy requests listed.

Read more about the data security features and advantages of the Alumio iPaaS ->
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What features does the Alumio iPaaS provide to ensure privacy compliance?

Designed to connect limitless data and applications in a fast, flexible, and future-proof way, the Alumio iPaaS also provides several features that contribute to privacy compliance. This includes:

1. Data Encryption: Utilizing advanced encryption techniques to secure data exchange between integrated systems, the Alumio iPaaS protects data against unauthorized individuals.
2. Automated Monitoring & Logging: The Alumio iPaaS tracks and logs all data transactions and user interactions within integrated systems, providing robust real-time monitoring alerts to detect data errors or potential security issues.
3. Access control and authentication: The Alumio iPaaS only provides access to authorized personnel by enabling businesses to define user roles and permissions. It also supports various authentication methods like Google OAuth and Multi-factor authentication.
4. Streamlining data exchange: By enabling enhanced data governance, real-time data exchange, and workflow automation, the Alumio iPaaS eliminates data silos, data entry errors, and data duplications.
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Conclusion

In an era where data privacy is paramount, businesses need robust systems to ensure compliance with privacy regulations and to protect sensitive customer information. Apart from facilitating seamless data integration, the Alumio integration platform also includes features to enhance privacy compliance. By leveraging the Alumio iPaaS, businesses can establish a strong foundation for privacy protection and avoid potential legal consequences associated with non-compliance.

Most importantly, the Alumio iPaaS follows the "privacy by design" principle, enabling businesses to adapt to changing compliance requirements and operational needs. As regulations evolve, Alumio can accommodate new privacy guidelines and provide the necessary tools to ensure ongoing compliance.

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