Data Protection & Compliance
Ensures the secure management of sensitive data, while maintaining compliance with regulatory standards.
Data is both your organisation’s most valuable asset and its greatest regulatory liability. Sensitive information flows across endpoints, cloud platforms, email systems, and SaaS applications — and the consequences of a data breach or a compliance failure are severe: financial penalties, reputational damage, and loss of client trust.
At e-Xpert Solutions, our engineers have been helping Swiss organisations protect sensitive data and demonstrate regulatory compliance since 2001. We bring deep technical expertise across data loss prevention, encryption, data governance, and security analytics — combined with an intimate knowledge of the Swiss regulatory landscape, including nLPD, FINMA circulars, GDPR, PCI-DSS, and ISO 27001.
Our approach is not just about deploying tools: it is about building a sustainable data protection programme that reduces risk, satisfies auditors, and scales with your organisation.
Our Data Protection & Compliance Capabilities:
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Sensitive data leaving your organisation — intentionally or not — is one of the most damaging and hardest-to-detect threats. Our engineers deploy and tune Data Loss Prevention solutions using Forcepoint DLP, covering endpoints, networks, cloud applications, and email. We define data classification policies, configure detection rules based on your specific data types (financial data, personal data, intellectual property), and integrate DLP alerts into your security operations workflow for rapid response. Forcepoint DLP is a platform our team has deployed extensively in Swiss financial and industrial environments — we bring certified expertise, not just installation knowledge.
Email Security & Anti-Phishing
Email remains the primary vector for data breaches, credential theft, and ransomware delivery. We deploy and operate Proofpoint Email Security — covering advanced threat protection, anti-phishing, business email compromise (BEC) detection, and outbound DLP for email. Our engineers configure Proofpoint policies aligned with your organisation’s risk profile and integrate email security telemetry with Splunk or Cribl for unified security visibility. For regulated organisations, we also implement email encryption and data retention controls aligned with FINMA and nLPD obligations.
Security Data Pipeline & Analytics
The challenge of data protection is not just collecting security data — it is managing its volume, routing it efficiently, and ensuring that the right data reaches the right tools at the right cost. Our engineers deploy Cribl Stream to build intelligent security data pipelines that filter, enrich, transform, and route log data from across your environment — to Splunk, your SIEM, or any other destination. Cribl reduces Splunk licensing costs, improves data quality, and enables your security analytics to scale without proportional infrastructure investment.
SIEM & Security Analytics
Effective data protection requires continuous visibility into how data is accessed and moved. We deploy and operate Splunk as a security analytics and SIEM platform — ingesting data from endpoints, networks, cloud services, email, and DLP tools to deliver real-time threat detection, compliance monitoring, and audit-ready reporting. Our Splunk engineers hold advanced certifications and have built custom detection rules aligned with Swiss regulatory requirements. Splunk dashboards and reports generated by our implementations are used directly in FINMA audit submissions and ISO 27001 reviews.
Secure File Sharing & Data Governance
Sensitive documents shared externally — with clients, regulators, advisors, or partners — represent a significant and often unmanaged data risk. We deploy Kiteworks as a secure content platform for controlled external file sharing, email, and collaboration — with end-to-end encryption, granular access controls, full audit trails, and compliance reporting aligned with FINMA, nLPD, and GDPR. Kiteworks replaces insecure file-sharing practices with a governed, auditable process that satisfies both security and compliance teams.
Encryption at Rest & in Transit
Encryption is the last line of defence when access controls fail. Our engineers implement encryption solutions across data at rest (databases, file systems, backups) and data in transit (network communications, cloud transfers, email), ensuring that sensitive data remains protected even in the event of a breach. We design encryption architectures that are operationally practical — with proper key management, certificate lifecycle management through our SSLCert platform, and integration with your existing infrastructure.
Regulatory Framework Alignment — nLPD, FINMA, GDPR, PCI-DSS
Compliance is not a one-time project — it is an ongoing programme. Our engineers help organisations map their data protection controls against the specific regulatory frameworks that apply to them: the Swiss nLPD (in force since September 2023), FINMA circulars for financial institutions, GDPR for organisations processing EU personal data, PCI-DSS for payment environments, and ISO 27001. We translate regulatory requirements into concrete technical and organisational controls, support audit preparation, and provide the documentation required to demonstrate compliance to internal and external auditors.
Why e-Xpert Solutions for Data Protection & Compliance?
Our data protection practice is built on the intersection of deep technical expertise and Swiss regulatory knowledge — a combination that is rare and that makes a tangible difference in the quality of the programmes we deliver.
Our engineers are certified specialists in Forcepoint, Proofpoint, Splunk, Cribl, and Kiteworks, and have delivered data protection programmes across the Swiss financial, healthcare, industrial, luxury, and public sectors. We understand what FINMA expects from a data protection programme — because our engineers have worked through those requirements with clients in the field.
Our Security Operations Center — certified ISO 27001 and covered by an ISAE 3000 assurance report issued by a Big4 firm — provides continuous monitoring capabilities that extend naturally into data protection: DLP alerts, email security events, and data access anomalies all feed into our At-Defense SOC for 24/7 detection and response.
We also bring offensive security depth to data protection: our engineers contribute to MITRE ATT&CK and SIGMA, and have published CVEs for Microsoft, F5, and Abacus — meaning we design data protection controls with a clear understanding of how attackers seek to exfiltrate data and evade detection.
We operate from our offices in Geneva (Plan-les-Ouates) and Lausanne, serving organisations across French-speaking Switzerland and internationally.
Technologies We Work With
We implement and operate data protection and compliance solutions using the following platforms — selected and configured by certified engineers based on your data environment and regulatory obligations:
Our platform expertise is built on certified engineering knowledge and real-world deployment experience in regulated Swiss environments — not generic vendor certifications.
Ready to Strengthen Your Data Protection Posture?
Whether you need to address a specific regulatory requirement, deploy DLP, build a security analytics programme, or demonstrate compliance to FINMA or external auditors, e-Xpert Solutions brings the engineering expertise to help. Contact us to discuss your challenges.
Ready to Strengthen Your Data Protection Posture?
Q : What are the main data protection regulations applicable to Swiss organisations?
Swiss organisations are primarily subject to the revised Federal Act on Data Protection (nLPD), which came into force in September 2023 and introduced significantly strengthened requirements compared to the previous law — including mandatory breach notification, privacy by design obligations, and data processing records. Financial institutions are also subject to FINMA circulars on data governance and outsourcing. Organisations processing personal data of EU residents must comply with GDPR. Depending on sector and activities, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA may also apply.
Q : What is Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and which data does it protect?
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is a set of technologies and policies that detect and prevent the unauthorised transfer, sharing, or exposure of sensitive data. DLP solutions monitor data in use (on endpoints), in motion (crossing the network or being sent by email), and at rest (in storage) — triggering alerts or blocking actions that violate defined policies. DLP is typically used to protect personal data (subject to nLPD and GDPR), financial data (subject to FINMA), intellectual property, and payment card data (subject to PCI-DSS).
Q : What is Cribl and why is it used alongside Splunk?
Cribl Stream is a security data pipeline platform that sits between your data sources and your SIEM or analytics tools. It filters out low-value log data before it reaches Splunk, enriches events with additional context, routes data to multiple destinations simultaneously, and enables format transformation for better ingestion. In practice, Cribl significantly reduces Splunk licensing costs by reducing ingest volume while improving the quality of the data that reaches your analysts. It is also used to route security data to cold storage for compliance purposes without incurring SIEM licensing costs on archived data.
Q : What is Kiteworks and how does it support compliance?
Kiteworks is a secure content platform for managing, sharing, and collaborating on sensitive documents — internally and with external parties. It provides end-to-end encryption, granular access controls, complete audit trails, and compliance reporting that maps directly to requirements under FINMA, nLPD, GDPR, and other frameworks. For Swiss financial institutions and regulated organisations, Kiteworks replaces insecure email attachments and consumer file-sharing tools with a controlled, auditable process that satisfies both information security and legal/compliance teams.
Q : How does e-Xpert Solutions support FINMA compliance specifically?
FINMA (the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority) imposes specific requirements on data governance, outsourcing controls, business continuity, and information security for regulated financial institutions. Our engineers have delivered data protection programmes for Swiss financial institutions that satisfy FINMA circular requirements — including data classification, access controls, DLP, encryption, audit logging, and incident response procedures. We also support FINMA audit preparation by providing the technical documentation, reports, and evidence packages that auditors require.
Q : Where is e-Xpert Solutions based?
e-Xpert Solutions is headquartered in Plan-les-Ouates (Geneva) and operates a second office in Lausanne. Founded in 2001, we serve organisations across French-speaking Switzerland and beyond. As part of Swiss Expert Group, we also collaborate with teams in Gland, Givisiez, Fribourg, and Kloten (Zurich).
