SMART Compliance

XQ helps businesses meet and exceed the most common compliance standards.

XQ’s SMART data protection helps businesses meet consumer email and file transfer compliance requirements

Built with compliance in mind. We’ve dedicated features to dealing with the increasingly hostile compliance landscape to ensure your data is protected against the challenges of today and the regulatory landscape of tomorrow.

Compliance Features

 

XQ helps US government contractors comply with NIST 800-171 standards for controlled unclassified information (CUI) for their email communications. We provide a plug-and-play solution that doesn’t interfere with your existing security protocols. XQ works with their existing Microsoft Office and Gmail accounts, making encryption and logging a seamless experience that doesn’t interfere with your workflow. XQ’s support of iPhone and Android devices makes it possible to take regulated conversations anywhere. With XQ, you can stay secure regardless of where you are.

We also built XQ with dedicated audit and compliance tools to make you and your CISO’s lives easier. In just a couple of clicks, you can export your keys for audit and compliance purposes. In addition to key archiving, we built our API to integrate directly into your AWS and Azure server. Doing so allows you to take XQ completely out of the loop and have total control over your data.

CCPA and XQ

 

The passing of the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) marked the crossing of the rubicon for digital privacy laws and enforcement in the United States. Effective January 1, 2020, CCPA holds businesses of all sizes liable for customer data breaches and features one of the most punitive fine schedules seen thus far for violations. The state can levy a $2,500 fine for each instance of compromised personally identifiable information and $7,500 for intentional violations. 

Unfortunately, data breaches are a fact of life. There is a pretty good chance that you will be, or already have been subject to, the kinds of attacks that precipitate a data breach. Phishing emails are the most common attack that cybercriminals will use to trick your employees and penetrate your system. If an employee falls victim to one of these emails, your system will be compromised, exposing your customers’ data. With that being the case, the threat from CCPA fines for violations lingers over the head of every small business owner: a single phishing email could lead to crippling fines and damage your enterprise.

XQ to the Rescue

 

It’s difficult enough to survive with razor-thin margins, pandemics, cybercriminals, and competition from multinational conglomerates.

At XQ, we feel your pain. That’s why we built our platform from the ground up as a service to defend your business from cybercriminals and zealous regulators. We married quantum-safe edge encryption and data management tools to a friendly interface to create the most secure and simplest to use cybersecurity product on the market.

XQ helps clients secure all their communication and data so that they meet both the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance regulations no matter where their customers are. XQ supports a number of key compliance features such as message-based encryption/revocation, identity verification, policy-based expiration, geo-read receipts, and support of cloud-based KMS, including Amazon’s KMS.

NIST and XQ

 

XQ is led by a team with decades of experience working with and for the government. We know the challenges of ensuring your team is compliant with regulations when working on government projects. That’s why we built XQ - to meet and exceed compliance regulations and guidance for government contractors.

How Does this Actually Help You?

 

Let’s use the phishing emails we discussed earlier as an example. One of your employees receives a seemingly genuine invoice from a vendor and so they open the attachment. Alas, your vendor fell victim to a data breach and hackers are now sending highly-targeted phishing emails to clients. What that means is that your employee has just compromised your system and your customers’ data. Say you have 5,000 customers’ information on file. That’s at least $12 million in CCPA fines.

XQ allows you to avoid this horror story by encrypting your messages and key revocation. Had your employee been using XQ, they would know immediately something was wrong if your vendor was sending an unencrypted invoice and could verify with them. What’s more, if you realize that your vendor may have been compromised, you can revoke all of your keys with them immediately, ensuring that you and your customers’ data remain safe.

GDPR and XQ

 

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is one of the most comprehensive and byzantine sets of privacy regulations in effect today and has profound implications for global firms. Since it came into effect in May 2018, fines have been levied against businesses of all sizes. Fines can be up to 4% of a firm’s global revenue, making failure to comply with GDPR a serious liability for any firm. Some of the more notable cases thus far have seen Marriott International, British Airways, and Google subject to hundreds of millions of dollars in fines each. 

The operational constraints of GDPR will force your firm to rethink its security practices and restructure IT setups. Privacy by default is now required as a part of GDPR, meaning that embedded privacy tools are required within the daily operations of your firm. In addition, firms are required to have Data Protection Officers and undertake routine data protection impact assessments. If the worst-case scenario should happen and your firm encounters a data breach, you are required by law to notify both regulators and customers. That means you can no longer contain the fallout from a data breach. Your firm will face all of the reputational consequences of being dragged through the mud by regulators and the media.

Our Solution

 

We understand that the new challenges you face seem daunting. And we get it, as a business owner you care deeply for your customers and we’re committed to protecting them long before regulators began threatening you. That’s why we built XQ to help small businesses address regulatory concerns like GDPR.

XQ’s edge-encryption model embeds directly into all of your team’s favorite messaging apps to make private, secure communications your organization’s default policy. With XQ’s secure mobile cross-platform tools, you can take regulated conversations anywhere. You and your clients can have peace of mind knowing that all your conversations will remain secure, even during those spur of the moment checkups

If you’re a small or medium-sized business, it’s unlikely that you have the resources to hire specialized in-house cybersecurity personnel, let alone IT staff. We make it possible for anyone in your firm to become a data protection officer and security lead. XQ’s dashboard product allows businesses of any size to create a secure environment that extends outside their organization to include clients, vendors, and other third parties. The dashboard can turn anyone into a security manager and takes just 15 minutes to set up. It allows the manager to create and provision team members, monitor threats in real-time, and monitor team encryption activity. The dashboard is optimized for audit and compliance purposes, facilitating data ownership and key control.

XQ supports a number of key compliance features such as message-based encryption/revocation, identity verification, policy-based expiration, geo-read receipts, and support of cloud-based KMS, including Amazon’s KMS. 

HIPAA and XQ

 

HIPPA laws are some of the most mature and stringent regulations in the books: falling afoul of them will likely strain your business’s finances and reputation. So is it a moral conundrum? Given the sensitive nature of personal health information (PHI), don’t you owe it to your patients to take the most stringent measures to protect them?

Mobile HIPAA Compliance

 

XQ’s advanced quantum-resistant edge-encryption product meets and exceeds HIPPA standards and industry best practices. We are a cross-platform mobile solution that integrates into the messaging platforms you are already using, across all of your devices. 

Mobile devices have already been adopted by most healthcare providers to expedite patient care and continue to grow in importance as new health tech solutions are deployed on them. Unfortunately, messages and files sent from these devices are easily intercepted, putting electronic health records (EHRs) and other personal information at risk. XQ has embedded iOS and Android functionality, allowing you to encrypt emails, iMessages/SMS, and files directly from your device.

We know that with new working realities your workflow is disrupted and requires you to work outside the office, sending sensitive PHI to co-workers and patients. XQ’s mobile functionality allows you to take regulated conversations anywhere. You’ll never have to worry about being out of contact for time-sensitive issues again. 

In addition, XQ supports a number of key compliance features such as message-based encryption/revocation, identity verification, policy-based expiration, geo-read receipts, and support of cloud-based KMS, including Amazon’s KMS.