DSP-14 Disclosure of Data Sub-processors
Processes, procedures and technical measures are defined, put in place and assessed so that the data owner is told about any sub-processor access to personal or sensitive data before that processing begins.
Source: CSA CCM v4.1, DSP-14. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open CSA CCM v4.1 in the compliance library.
Version 4.1 adds 11 controls (among them API security, log sanitisation and a service bill of materials) and renumbers several domains. CSA accepts v4.0.x during its transition; if your STAR assessment is still on v4.0.1, check the numbering against it.
These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.
system holds itEvidence a system already holds
none for this control
periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review
- Customer notification records of new sub-processors · Document repository
- Objection handling records · Document repository
- Test of the notification process · Document repository
governing documentDocuments that govern the control
- Published sub-processor list · Document repository
- Contract terms requiring advance notice · Vendor register / contract repository
First move
Common gaps auditors find
- Notice given after the sub-processor starts
- List out of date
- Customers not given a way to object
Do this for your whole sheet
Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.
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