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Bitsight - Vulnerability Management Service: GDPR information
Summary
For administrative purposes, Participating Trusts nominate an individual(s) to act as the main point of contact (PoC) for External Vulnerability Scanning. Nominated individual(s) will receive a BitSight user account.
Controller | NHS Digital |
How we use the information (processing activities) | BitSight provides a non-intrusive risk-based vulnerability scorecard based on publicly available information sources. This tool provides a “vulnerability credit” rating for each NHS Organisation. |
Does this contain sensitive (special category) data such as health information? | No |
Who are recipients of this data? |
NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) Data Access Release Service release register
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Is data transferred outside the UK? | Outside EAA |
How long the data is kept | 24 months |
Our lawful basis for holding this data | Legal obligation |
Your rights |
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How can you withdraw your consent? |
Consent is not the basis for processing |
Is the data subject to decisions made solely by computers? (automated decision making) | No |
Where does this data come from? | The Data is collated by Bitsight servers primarily based in America, However as this data is obtained by Bitsight Services, via the open source internet, and collated by them, they are the data owners, not NHS Digital |
The legal basis for collecting this data | GDPR: Directions and data provision notices
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