CompliancePoint, a leading provider of information security and risk management services for compliance and data security, has established a data privacy solutions focus for the automotive industry, with resources to protect manufacturers, automotive lenders, dealers and other users of automotive data.

In 2018, more than 100 automotive manufacturing companies including General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, Ford, Toyota and Volkswagen experienced a data breach exposing trade secrets from the carmakers.  Data privacy and trade secrets are crucial components in the automotive industry. A data breach can cost millions in monetary value, not including the loss of priceless trade secrets that lead to unfair advantages to competitors when crucial data is compromised. According to Forbes, it can take companies an average of 200 days to identify a data breach, and another 70 days to contain in. CompliancePoint offers cybersecurity assessments to automotive companies, which are designed to prevent potential liabilities and mitigate risk by protecting security framework.

Some key services include mobile and wireless testing, web application testing and data breach attempt response. Automotive companies can strengthen their data security, lower operational costs, and simplify their compliance process. Vulnerability and penetration testing (PEN Testing) are performed to expose known and unknown weaknesses through experts who attempt to hack the automotive organizations web systems. PEN tests further identify areas of weakness that put an automotive organization at risk.

CompliancePoint provides a complete cybersecurity solution for automotive organizations through cyber threat assessments and quality results that are crucial to identifying issues that can leave an automaker at risk. CompliancePoint further works to resolve found issues, offering a comprehensive yet proactive approach to assessing cyber threats. Risk management provides automotive organizations with monitoring solutions and attentiveness that is needed for real security and peace-of-mind.  

About Compliance Point

CompliancePoint is a leading provider of information security and risk management services focused on privacy, data security, compliance and vendor risk management. The company’s mission is to help clients interact responsibly with their customers and the marketplace. CompliancePoint provides a full suite of services across the entire life cycle of risk management using a FIND, FIX & MANAGE approach. CompliancePoint can help organizations prepare for critical need such as GDPR with project initiation and buy-in, strategic consulting, data inventory and mapping, readiness assessments, PIMS & ISMS framework design and implementation, and ongoing program management and monitoring. The company’s history of dealing with both privacy and data security, inside knowledge of regulatory actions and combination of services and technology solutions makes CompliancePoint uniquely qualified to help clients achieve both a secure and compliant framework.

Learn more about CompliancePoint at www.compliancepoint.com