Data Protection Agreements are the contractual mechanism through which GDPR-regulated organisations establish lawful grounds for international personal data transfers and define the responsibilities of data processors — and their technical annexes increasingly specify Zero Trust controls, encryption standards, and access logging requirements that processors must implement as conditions of the data processing relationship. Zero Trust architecture provides the technical controls — identity-verified access, data-minimisation policy enforcement, audit trails, and cross-border data transfer monitoring — that allow organisations to demonstrate DPA compliance to supervisory authorities and corporate customers conducting data protection due diligence.
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