Overview

Astra Pentest helps you get closer to your compliance goals.

• Its automated vulnerability scanning tool and manual pentest fulfil the VAPT requirements for security compliances like PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, and ISO 27001

• By meeting the VAPT requirements of these security compliances, Astra Pentest helps you get closer to achieving compliance goals.

• This targeted approach to vulnerability management ensures that your web application remains secure and compliant with the applicable regulations and industry standards.

PCI-DSS Compliance

What it is

PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliance is a set of security standards established to ensure the protection of cardholder data during transactions. The standard applies to any organization that stores, processes or transmits credit card data. This compliance is required for any business that accepts credit card payments.

Astra helps you with

• Continuous comprehensive scanning to find vulnerable security regions.

• Helps interactively fix vulnerabilities to ensure a smoother security compliance audit.

• Checking for various kinds of Injection flaws including but not limited to SQL injection, LDAP injection, CRLF injection to expose any data security issues.

• Checking for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks to find any data-handling issues.

• Checking for broken authentication and session management.

• Checking for insecure communications and chances of a man-in-the-middle attack.

• Use manipulated login-based attacks to find vulnerabilities that will allow the attacker to elevate its privileges.

Needs to be done outside of Astra

• Install and maintain a firewall

• Protect stored cardholder data

• Encrypt cardholder data transmission

• Track and monitor network access

• Have a cybersecurity policy

GDPR Requirements

What it is

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation by the European Union that aims to strengthen data protection for individuals within the EU. It regulates how personal data is collected, used, processed, and stored by organizations and gives individuals more control over their personal data. The GDPR applies to all organizations, regardless of their location, that process personal data of individuals within the EU.

Astra helps you with

• Frequent pentesting and scanning to ensure the organization's GDPR compliance or find areas of non-compliance.

• Helps maintain and build trust among existing and potential clients through meticulous compliance.

• Exposes possible ways of SQL injections before an attacker exploits them.

• Finding data communications issues such as communication over not secure protocol (HTTP).

• Source code leakage.

Needs to be done outside of Astra

• Have a legal justification for your data processing activities

• Provide clear information about your data processing and legal justification in your privacy policy

• Create an internal security policy for your team members and build awareness about your data protection

• Have a process in place to notify the authorities and your data subjects in the event of a data breach

• Designate someone responsible for ensuring GDPR compliance across your organization

HIPAA Compliance

What it is

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), is a US law that sets standards for the privacy and security of protected health information (PHI) to ensure its confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Astra helps you with

• Through conducting continuous scans and regular pentests that can identify any loopholes within healthcare data security.

• Scanning for vulnerabilities which allow unauthorized access to sensitive data.

• Scanning for vulnerabilities which might leak electronic protected health information (ePHI).

• Rescanning after patching is done to ensure that there are no additional security risks to confidential data.

Needs to be done outside of Astra

• Designate a HIPAA Privacy Officer responsible for the development, implementation, and enforcement of HIPAA-compliant policies

• Identify risks to the privacy of PHI and implement safeguards to minimize risks to a “reasonable and appropriate” level

• Develop policies and procedures for using and disclosing PHI in compliance with HIPAA and for preventing HIPAA violations

• Perform due diligence on Business Associates, review existing Business Associate Agreements, and revise as necessary

SOC 2

What it is

SOC 2 (Service Organization Control 2) is a widely recognized auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) that focuses on the security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of service providers' systems and data. SOC 2 compliance demonstrates that a service provider has the necessary controls in place to mitigate security risks and protect sensitive data.

Astra helps you with

• Helps uphold Security, Privacy, and Confidentiality in SOC2 Trust Services Criteria (TSCs)

• Upon remediation, SOC 2 compliance-specific report is generated

• Finding source code leakage

• Possible ways for elevated privilege attacks

• Exposing server side template injection

Needs to be done outside of Astra

• Determine your SOC 2 audit scope and objectives

• Select your trust services criteria

• Perform a Gap Assessment

ISO 27001 Compliance

What it is

ISO 27001 is a widely recognized international standard for information security management systems (ISMS). It provides a framework for implementing and maintaining effective security controls and managing risks related to information assets.

Astra helps you with

• Regular pentest and scans of websites, APIs, and networks

• It allows your organization to follow various frameworks that work best for your industry like OWASP 10, and SANS 25

• Through maintaining the three ISMS cornerstones:- Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability

Needs to be done outside of Astra

• Writing a top-level Information Security Policy

• Defining the risk assessment methodology

• Performing risk assessment and risk treatment

Note - Astra helps you with tools to automate your product pentesting and identify issues that need to be resolved before getting compliance certificates. Astra in no form provides any compliance certificates or any guarantee that a product is compliance-ready.

Acronym Block:

IDOR - Indirect Object References PII - Personally Identifiable Information