Regulatory Coverage

Compliance, Built Into Every Layer

DocuSentinel maps every detection event to specific regulatory articles across GDPR, POPIA, Ghana DPA, and PCI-DSS — generating audit-ready reports on demand.

GDPR

General Data Protection Regulation

European Union

Art. 5(1)(f)

Integrity & Confidentiality

DocuSentinel's DSID chain-of-custody provides cryptographic proof of document handling, satisfying the 'integrity and confidentiality' principle.

Art. 30

Records of Processing Activities

Every instrumented document and detection event is logged with Merkle-anchored timestamps, forming an immutable processing record.

Art. 33

Breach Notification (72h)

Real-time detection alerts with sub-500ms latency ensure breach awareness well within the 72-hour notification window.

Art. 35

Data Protection Impact Assessment

The Risk Analytics dashboard provides continuous DPIA monitoring with classification-weighted exposure scoring.

POPIA

Protection of Personal Information Act

South Africa

Section 19

Security Safeguards

Three-layer steganographic encoding with Reed-Solomon ECC constitutes 'appropriate, reasonable technical measures' for data protection.

Section 22

Notification of Security Compromises

Automated alert routing to Information Officers and the Information Regulator via SIEM connectors.

Section 14

Further Processing Limitation

DSID tracking detects unauthorized further processing (e.g., pasting into external AI tools) in real time.

Ghana DPA

Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843)

Ghana

Section 28

Security of Personal Data

Continuous monitoring of document exfiltration to AI tools with forensic chain-of-custody meets the 'appropriate technical measures' requirement.

Section 17

Accountability Principle

Merkle-hashed audit trails with RFC 3161 timestamping provide verifiable accountability records for the Data Protection Commission.

Section 30

Data Breach Notification

Sub-second detection and automated notification pipelines to Slack, email, and SIEM ensure prompt breach reporting.

PCI-DSS v4

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

Global

Req. 3.4

Render PAN Unreadable

Steganographic markers identify cardholder data documents before they leave the secure network perimeter.

Req. 10.2

Audit Trail Records

Every document access, copy, and AI-tool paste is recorded with user identity, timestamp, device, and destination.

Req. 12.10

Incident Response Plan

The Command Centre provides real-time incident triage with severity scoring and escalation workflows.