SOC2-P4.2 P4.2 Retaining personal information
SOC2-P4.2 in SOC 2 (the AICPA 2017 Trust Services Criteria with the revised points of focus). All SOC 2 controls held. Open SOC 2 on the standards site.
The control as we hold it
P4.2 Retaining personal information. Personal information is retained in line with privacy objectives. Points of focus: it is kept no longer than needed for the stated purposes unless law requires otherwise; and it is protected from erasure or destruction during its retention period.
Reviewed and closest counterparts in the other frameworks
Reviewed rows come from a released pair; a closest match is the nearest held text and is not a reviewed row.
HIPAA Security Rule
- 164.316(b)(2)(i) Time Limit (Documentation Retention) (closest match)
NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5
- NIST800-AU-11 AU-11 Audit Record Retention (closest match)
- NIST800-MP-6 MP-6 Media Sanitization (closest match)
- NIST800-PM-22 PM-22 Personally Identifiable Information Quality Management (closest match)
- NIST800-PM-25 PM-25 Minimization of Personally Identifiable Information Used in Testing, Training, and Research (closest match)
- NIST800-PT-3 PT-3 Personally Identifiable Information Processing Purposes (closest match)
- NIST800-SI-12 SI-12 Information Management and Retention (closest match)
- NIST800-SI-18 SI-18 Personally Identifiable Information Quality Operations (closest match)
- NIST800-SI-19 SI-19 De-identification (closest match)
What an auditor commonly asks for
General guidance for this control area (domain: P - Privacy), in our words, not a statement of the standard and not binding on an assessor.
- the privacy notice and its change log
- the consent and preference records
- the data-subject request log with resolution
- the retention and disposal records