For GDPR programs

GDPR compliance, made boring.

Continuous monitoring for the security controls GDPR actually asks for under Articles 25 and 32. Audit-ready exports your DPO can hand to a regulator without a phone call.

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What GDPR expects

The security obligations, in plain English.

Article 25

Data protection by design

Continuous checks on the controls that protect personal data by default: TLS posture, security headers, cookie scopes, and exposed endpoints that bypass intended boundaries.

Article 32

Security of processing

Evidence that the technical measures you claim are actually in place. Encryption in transit, hardened auth surfaces, and monitoring of drift across deploys.

Article 33

Breach detection signal

Alerts from scheduled scans on newly exposed services, regressed TLS, and changes in your public attack surface, so the 72-hour notification clock starts when it should.

Pentest evidence

Testing evidence for GDPR.

Article 32(1)(d) asks for a process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating whether your security measures work. A penetration test on a regular schedule is the most direct evidence of that process. Barrion's AI pentest produces it, and monitoring keeps a dated record in between.

Report

Mapped to OWASP WSTG

Each AI pentest report comes as PDF, XLSX and JSON with an OWASP WSTG coverage matrix. Your auditor sees what was tested, not only what was found.

Review

A security engineer reviews

From Standard up a security engineer reviews the findings. Deeper tests come with a report signed off by that engineer.

Retest

Free retests show the fix

Retesting the issues a pentest found costs nothing. The evidence then shows the finding and the fix, which is the part auditors ask about next.

Continuous

Testing that keeps running

The pentest reruns on a schedule or on demand. Each run labels earlier findings as new, still open, resolved or regressed.

Findings are checked against your live app before they're reported. Confirmed ones come with the request and response, and unconfirmed ones are kept as lower-confidence leads. The monitoring below is the second layer: it keeps a timestamped record between tests.

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How Barrion helps

Continuous evidence, without the spreadsheet.

Monitoring

GDPR-aligned continuous scans

Production-safe passive scans that run on your live app on a cadence you set. It won't submit forms or hit state-changing routes, so you can point it at prod and forget about it.

Findings

Data-protection vulnerability detection

Ranked findings with plain-language explanations and the exact remediation steps for your framework. Hand them to the engineer who owns the surface.

Evidence

Audit-ready exports

PDF and CSV exports with evidence for your GDPR technical measures. Attach them to your record of processing activities or to your next vendor security review.

Alerts

Regression alerts

When a control you previously passed starts failing, you hear about it after the next scheduled scan. Useful for the 72-hour notification window and for not surprising your DPO.

How it fits your program

A cadence your DPO, can actually defend.

GDPR doesn't prescribe a scanner. It asks for "appropriate technical measures" and the ability to demonstrate them. Barrion turns that into a weekly or daily rhythm: production-safe scans run on schedule, each finding is recorded with its severity and fix, and every scan leaves a dated artifact behind.

That means when an auditor or a customer's security team asks how you monitor for security regressions, you don't write a paragraph, you send a PDF. And when something does regress, you find out at the next scheduled scan instead of during a breach review.

✓Scan cadence you can defend, up to daily
✓Evidence for GDPR Articles 25, 32, and 33
✓Dated PDF and CSV exports for your evidence pack
✓Production-safe by default, no impact on live users
✓Alerts when a previously-passing control starts failing

Evidence example

An Article 32 mapping, ready for your DPO.

How Barrion's checks line up with GDPR Article 32 controls. Exports don't carry control tags (pentest reports list CWE, OWASP WSTG and CVSS per finding), so use this as a guide when you cite the evidence:

{
  "tls_encryption_transit": "Art 32(1)(a)",
  "data_integrity_headers": "Art 32(1)(b)",
  "availability_monitoring": "Art 32(1)(b)",
  "resilience_dns_check": "Art 32(1)(c)",
  "regression_alerting": "Art 32(1)(d)",
  "breach_detection_signal": "Art 33"
}

FAQ

GDPR monitoring, answered.

Does GDPR require penetration testing?

Not by name. Article 32(1)(d) asks for a process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating your technical measures, and a scheduled penetration test is the clearest way to show one. Barrion's AI pentest produces a WSTG-mapped report, reviewed by a security engineer from Standard up, with free retests of what you fix. It can rerun on a schedule or on demand.

What's actually in scope here, just the website or our backend too?

Anything reachable over HTTP that processes personal data. That includes your marketing site, the app shell, public APIs, login flows, and any subdomains you add. Barrion monitors what an attacker would see from the outside, which is the same surface GDPR Article 32 cares about. Internal-only systems behind a VPN are out of scope for this product.

Will the exports actually hold up in an audit?

The PDF and CSV exports include scan timestamps, the finding, the affected URL, the remediation taken, and the severity of each finding. Most auditors and DPOs want evidence that you monitor continuously and act on findings. The exports give them both, with dates. They are not a substitute for your record of processing activities or your DPIA, but they slot into the evidence pack cleanly.

How often do scans run, and can we change that?

Essential plans run weekly continuous scans, Business plans run daily. You can also trigger an on-demand scan from the dashboard at any time, which is what most teams do after a meaningful deploy. Every scan produces a new dated record, so your evidence trail accumulates without you having to remember anything.

Is it safe to run this against production?

Yes, that's the default mode. Scans are read-only: they don't submit forms, don't authenticate as users, and don't touch state-changing routes. If you want coverage behind login, run an AI pentest with credentials. The GDPR-relevant checks (TLS, headers, cookies, DNS, exposure) all run safely against the live app.

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