Google Tag Manager Compliance
Google Tag Manager (GTM) compliance in cybersecurity refers to adhering to relevant security standards, regulations, and best practices when using GTM. This includes:
Data Privacy: Ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA by properly managing user consent, data collection, and storage through GTM.
Security Standards: Adhering to industry-specific security standards, such as PCI DSS for handling payment card information, when implementing GTM.
Internal Policies: Following internal security policies and guidelines related to tag management, access control, and data handling within GTM.
Vendor Requirements: Meeting any security requirements specified by vendors whose tags or scripts are deployed through GTM.
Maintaining GTM compliance is crucial for:
Protecting user data and privacy.
Avoiding legal and financial penalties.
Maintaining a strong security posture.
Building trust with customers and partners.
ThreatNG can help organizations achieve and maintain GTM compliance in the context of cybersecurity through its various capabilities:
1. External Discovery and Assessment:
ThreatNG discovers all instances of GTM across an organization's digital assets, including websites, web applications, and related parties. Its external assessment module analyzes each GTM implementation, checking for compliance with relevant security standards, data privacy regulations, and internal policies.
Example: ThreatNG discovers GTM on an organization's e-commerce website. The assessment module checks if GTM's data collection and handling practices comply with PCI DSS requirements for protecting payment card information. If any non-compliant configurations are found, ThreatNG flags them for remediation.
ThreatNG continuously monitors GTM deployments for any changes or updates. This ensures that modifications to GTM configurations or tags do not violate compliance requirements.
Example: A marketing team adds a new tag to GTM to track user behavior. ThreatNG detects this change and checks if the new tag complies with GDPR requirements for user consent and data privacy. If any compliance issues are found, ThreatNG alerts the security team.
ThreatNG's investigation modules provide deeper insights into GTM deployments, helping organizations identify and address compliance gaps.
Subdomain Intelligence: Identifies GTM instances on all subdomains, ensuring compliance across the entire digital presence.
Technology Stack: Identifies the technologies used alongside GTM, helping assess potential compliance implications related to data sharing and third-party integrations.
Sensitive Code Exposure: Scans GTM scripts for any exposed credentials or sensitive information, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations.
Dark Web Presence: Monitors the dark web for any mentions of the organization's GTM deployments or related domains, helping identify potential data breaches or compliance violations.
ThreatNG's intelligence repositories contain information about relevant security standards, data privacy regulations, and compliance best practices. This data helps the platform assess GTM deployments for compliance and provide recommendations for remediation.
Example: ThreatNG's intelligence repository contains the latest GDPR requirements for cookie consent. When assessing a GTM implementation, ThreatNG checks if the cookie consent banners and tag configurations comply with these requirements.
5. Reporting:
ThreatNG provides comprehensive reports on GTM compliance, highlighting any identified issues and providing recommendations for remediation. These reports can be used to demonstrate compliance to auditors and regulators.
Working with Complementary Solutions:
ThreatNG integrates with other security and compliance tools to enhance GTM compliance:
Consent Management Platforms (CMPs): ThreatNG can integrate with CMPs to ensure that user consent is appropriately managed and that GTM tags comply with consent preferences.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Solutions: ThreatNG can integrate with DLP solutions to prevent sensitive data from being collected or shared through GTM tags.
Examples of ThreatNG Helping with GTM Compliance:
GDPR Compliance: ThreatNG ensures that GTM deployments comply with GDPR requirements for data collection, user consent, and data subject rights.
PCI DSS Compliance: ThreatNG helps organizations comply with PCI DSS standards when handling payment card information through GTM.
Internal Policy Compliance: ThreatNG enforces internal security policies and guidelines for GTM usage, access control, and data handling.
Examples of ThreatNG Working with Complementary Solutions:
ThreatNG and CMP: ThreatNG integrates with a CMP to ensure that GTM tags only fire after obtaining user consent for specific data collection purposes.
ThreatNG and DLP: ThreatNG identifies a GTM tag attempting to collect sensitive customer data. It alerts the integrated DLP solution, which blocks the tag from firing and prevents the data from being collected.
By combining its discovery, assessment, monitoring, and investigation capabilities with rich intelligence repositories and integrations with complementary solutions, ThreatNG helps organizations achieve and maintain GTM compliance, protecting user data and privacy while ensuring adherence to relevant security standards and regulations.
