Netwrix helps you comply with Korea’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA)

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About the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA)

Korea’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) is one of the world’s strictest privacy regulations. It establishes comprehensive rules for the collection, use, disclosure, and protection of personal information by both public and private sector organizations. PIPA is enforced by the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) and applies to all entities processing the personal data of individuals located in South Korea.
The law emphasizes consent, data minimization, transparency, breach notification, and cross-border transfer requirements. Amendments to PIPA have strengthened alignment with international frameworks such as the EU GDPR and APAC privacy principles.

PIPA Benefits

Top reasons why organizations comply with Korea’s PIPA:

• Strengthens consumer trust
  Ensures individuals’ privacy rights are respected, building confidence among customers and partners.
• Avoids severe penalties
  PIPA imposes significant administrative fines and potential criminal liability for violations, making compliance critical.
• Supports global interoperability
  PIPA’s alignment with GDPR and other frameworks simplifies international operations and data exchange.
• Enhances data security governance
  Promotes strong data management, access control, and breach response practices.
  

How does Netwrix help you comply with PIPA?

Netwrix solutions provide visibility, governance, and security capabilities that help organizations operationalize compliance with Korea’s PIPA. They support key requirements such as consent-based processing, personal data protection, breach detection, and accountability.

Our solutions support:

• Discovery and classification of personal and sensitive information
• Access governance and least privilege enforcement
• Privileged access control and full session accountability
• Continuous auditing and reporting for compliance evidence
• Threat detection, breach investigation, and timely notification

Netwrix Data Classification

Automatically discovers and classifies personal and sensitive data, enabling organizations to know where regulated data resides and apply proper controls. Supports PIPA obligations for data inventory, minimization, and protection.

Netwrix Access Analyzer

Delivers insight into who has access to personal data and supports access governance practices that enforce least privilege in compliance with PIPA’s accountability principles.

Netwrix Privilege Secure

Implements just-in-time privileged access, credential vaulting, and full session monitoring. Helps ensure that administrative access to personal data is controlled, logged, and auditable.

Netwrix Threat Manager

Detects insider threats, abnormal activity, and data exfiltration attempts. Helps organizations meet PIPA’s requirements for security incident detection, response, and reporting.

Netwrix ITDR

Monitors for compromised identities, abnormal logins, and privilege misuse. Supports identity assurance and PIPA’s security safeguard requirements.

Netwrix Change Tracker

Monitors configuration baselines and detects unauthorized system changes. Ensures that data protection controls remain intact and effective.

Netwrix Password Secure

Enforces strong, compliant password policies and secure credential storage. Reduces the risk of unauthorized access to personal data.

Netwrix PingCastle

Assesses Active Directory and Entra ID for misconfigurations or excessive privileges that may expose personal data. Supports PIPA’s accountability and security assurance principles.

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