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DH-A-03Level 1 · Signal

Handles regulated data (PCI, PHI, PII)

An access signal from data classification: the person's role or repositories involve payment card data, health records or personal data under regulation.

Classification

Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
Dimension Every signal answers one of 3 questions.
Subject Who or what a signal is about: person, AI agent, vendor and organization.
Evidence level
Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
NIST CSF 2.0
  • ID.AM-07
MITRE ATT&CK
  • T1213

The definition, in detail

Definition

Mishandling by this person carries notification duties and fines.

Example

A claims processor works in a system of health records all day, so a misdirected export becomes a reportable breach.

How it is measured

Subject
Person
Event
Data classification
Risk domain
Data handling
Provenance
NIST CSF 2.0

How it is used

Programs count "Handles regulated data (PCI, PHI, PII)" per person from Data security posture and read it beside the other Data handling signals; it feeds 0 cohorts, 0 sequences and 1 breach scenario.

A "handles regulated data (PCI, PHI, PII)" record is evidence of what the person could expose (the access side of the model). It describes reach; it records no action by the person and no attack under way.

Technical mappings

NIST CSF 2.0
ID.AM-07
MITRE ATT&CK
T1213

Framework mappings; validate for your use case.

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Cite this term

"Handles regulated data (PCI, PHI, PII)" (DH-A-03), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/dh-a-03-handles-regulated-data-pci-phi-pii

Part of the open HRM Taxonomy, CC BY 4.0. Download the taxonomy as JSON · Version history. This page describes one signal.

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