Recommendations for technical implementation of Art.4

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Publication date:May 4, 2012

In 2011 ENISA has set up an Expert Group composed of representatives of the EU institutions, Art.29 Working Party, national DPAs and industry. This group helped in the development of the specific technical recommendations for the implementation of the Article 4 of the ePrivacy Directive, including a practical and usable definition of a data breach, and in particular its relation to the definition of an “information security incident”, criteria for determining a data breach, identification and assessment of security controls that affect determination of a breach, identification and assessment of risks of data breaches and procedures of notifications about data breaches in both private and public sector, including online processing of data breaches, definition of „undue delay‟ etc.