Lazarus Alliance delivers expert privacy audits, Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA), Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA), and comprehensive privacy compliance programs. As an authorized CMMC C3PAO and A2LA-accredited FedRAMP 3PAO with deep privacy expertise, we help organizations protect personally identifiable information (PII), demonstrate accountability, and build lasting customer trust.

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Why Privacy Compliance Matters

Personal data is one of your most valuable — and most vulnerable — business assets. Global regulations including GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA Privacy Rule, LGPD, DPDP, PIPEDA, and a growing number of U.S. state privacy laws impose strict requirements on how organizations collect, use, store, share, and protect personal information. Non-compliance risks significant fines, reputational damage, loss of customer trust, and legal liability.

Lazarus Alliance helps organizations move beyond reactive compliance to proactive privacy governance. Our Cybervisor® privacy experts guide you through discovery, risk assessment, program development, and ongoing monitoring so you can confidently handle PII while supporting business objectives.

SOC 2 Privacy

The trust services criteria applicable to a SOC 2 privacy audit covering the privacy criteria applies only to personal information such as health records, payment card information, or other personally identifiable information (PII) and how personal information is collected, used, retained, disclosed, and disposed to meet the entity's objectives.

The privacy criteria will encompass notice and communication of objectives, choice and consent, collection, use, retention, and disposal, access, disclosure and notification, quality, and monitoring and enforcement.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule

The HIPAA Privacy Rule establishes standards in the United States to protect individuals’ medical records and other personal health information. It applies to organizations that manage health plans, health care clearinghouses, and those health care providers that conduct certain health care transactions electronically. The Rule requires appropriate safeguards to protect the privacy of personal health information, and sets limits and conditions on the uses and disclosures that may be made of such information without patient authorization. The Rule also gives patients rights over their health information, including rights to examine and obtain a copy of their health records, and to request corrections.

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) Privacy of Consumer Information Rule

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act or GLBA) is also known as the Financial Modernization Act of 1999. It is a United States federal law that requires financial institutions to explain how they share and protect their customers’ private information. To be GLBA compliant, financial institutions must communicate to their customers how they share the customers’ sensitive data, inform customers of their right to opt-out if they prefer that their personal data not be shared with third parties, and apply specific protections to customers’ private data in accordance with a written information security plan created by the institution.

European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the toughest privacy and security law in the world. Though it was drafted and passed by the European Union (EU), it imposes obligations onto organizations anywhere, so long as they target or collect data related to people in the EU. The GDPR will levy harsh fines against those who violate its privacy and security standards, with penalties reaching into the tens of millions of euros.

India - Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act

This comprehensive law aims to safeguard personal data both within India and abroad. The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act in India aims to ensure transparency, responsibility, and ethical use of personal data. While it doesn’t explicitly outline specific audit objectives, its primary objectives include Accountability, Transparency, Data Minimization, Fairness, Accuracy, Lawful Processing, Rights of Data Principals, and Grievance Redressal.

The perfect service to demonstrate compliance with the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act is a Lazarus Alliance ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certification audit.

Brazil - General Data Protection Law (LGPD)

This comprehensive law aims to safeguard personal data both within Brazil and abroad. The General Data Protection Law (LGPD) in Brazil aims to ensure transparency, responsibility, and ethical use of personal data. While it doesn’t explicitly outline specific audit objectives, its primary objectives include:

• Respect for privacy
• Informational self-determination
• Freedom of expression, information, communication, and opinion
• Inviolability of intimacy, honor, and image
• Economic and technological development and innovation
• Free enterprise, free competition, and consumer defense
• Human rights, free development of personality, dignity, and exercise of citizenship by natural persons

The perfect service to demonstrate compliance with the General Data Protection Law (LGPD) is a Lazarus Alliance ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 certification audit.

State and Local Privacy Laws and Regulations

The most recent additions to the privacy laws emerging are listed. A common trend is these laws allow people to find out what data companies are collecting about them, see who they’re sharing that data with, request that it be corrected or deleted, and avoid having their data shared with or sold to third parties altogether. Consumers also have the ability to sue your company if they believe a violation exists.

The list goes on but examples include:

• The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), formerly the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
• The New York Privacy Act
• The Massachusetts Commonwealth Regulations, Code 201 § 17.00
• Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDA)

PIPEDA

Organizations covered by PIPEDA must generally obtain an individual's consent when they collect, use or disclose that individual's personal information. People have the right to access their personal information held by an organization. They also have the right to challenge its accuracy. Personal information can only be used for the purposes for which it was collected. If an organization is going to use it for another purpose, they must obtain consent again. Personal information must be protected by appropriate safeguards.

All businesses that operate in Canada and handle personal information that crosses provincial or national borders in the course of commercial activities are subject to PIPEDA, regardless of the province or territory in which they are based (including provinces with substantially similar legislation).

The principles are:

• Accountability
• Identifying Purposes
• Consent
• Limiting Collection
• Limiting Use, Disclosure, and Retention
• Accuracy
• Safeguards
• Openness
• Individual Access
• Challenging Compliance

U.S. Privacy Shield

The EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks were designed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission and Swiss Administration to provide companies on both sides of the Atlantic with a mechanism to comply with data protection requirements when transferring personal data from the European Union and Switzerland to the United States in support of transatlantic commerce.