WORKDAY COMPLIANCE

Our compliance programme.

Our strict compliance programme consists of third-party audits and international certifications to ensure data security and privacy, protect against security threats or data breaches and prevent unauthorised access of your data.

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Compliance resources for your organisation.

AICPA SOC

SOC 1

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday VNDLY

Service Organisation Controls (SOC) 1 reports provide information about a service organisation’s control environment that may be relevant to the customer's internal controls over financial reporting.

Our SOC 1 Type II report is issued in accordance the International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE) 3402 (Assurance Reports on Controls at a Service Organisation). The SOC 1 report covers the design and operating effectiveness of controls relevant to Workday enterprise cloud applications.

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SOC 2

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Strategic Sourcing, Workday Peakon Employee Voice, Workday VNDLY

The SOC 2 Type II report is an independent assessment of our control environment performed by a third party.

The SOC 2 report is based on the AICPA’s Trust Services Criteria and is issued annually in accordance with the AICPA’s AT Section 101 (Attest Engagements). The SOC 2 report details the design and operating effectiveness of controls relevant to any system containing customer data as part of Workday applications. The Workday Enterprise Products SOC 2 report addresses all of the Trust Services Criteria (Security, Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity and Privacy). Additionally, the report addresses the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and NIST 800-171 as part of the SOC 2+ Additional Subject Matter process, which includes an audited mapping of Workday’s controls against these frameworks.

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SOC 3

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products, Workday Adaptive Planning

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has developed the SOC 3 framework for safeguarding the confidentiality and privacy of information that is stored and processed in the cloud.

The SOC 3 report, an independent assessment of our control environment performed by a third party, is publicly available and provides a summary of our control environment relevant to the security, availability, confidentiality, processing integrity and privacy of customer data.

See our SOC 3 report for Workday Enterprise Products.

See our SOC 3 report for Workday Adaptive Planning. 

See our SOC 3 report for Workday Peakon Employee Voice.

See our SOC 3 report for Workday Strategic Sourcing.

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ISO 27001

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Strategic Sourcing, Workday VNDLY

Our Information Security Management System (ISMS) meets the requirements set forth by this globally recognised, standards-based approach to security. 

See our consolidated ISO 27001 certificate for Workday Enterprise Products, Workday Adaptive Planning, and Workday Strategic Sourcing.

See our ISO 27001 certificate for VNDLY.

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ISO 27017

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products, Workday Adaptive Planning

This standard provides controls and implementation guidance for information security controls applicable to the provision and use of cloud services.

See our consolidated ISO 27017 certificate for Workday Enterprise Products and Workday Adaptive Planning.

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ISO 27018

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday VNDLY

This standard contains guidelines applicable to cloud service providers that process personal data.

See our consolidated ISO 27018 certificate for Workday Enterprise Products and Workday Adaptive Planning.

See our ISO 27018 certificate for VNDLY.

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ISO 27701

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products, Workday Adaptive Planning

This standard provides the requirements and guidelines for the implementation and continuous improvement of an organisation’s Privacy Information Management System (PIMS) as an extension to ISO/IEC 27001.

See our consolidated ISO 27701 certificate for Workday Enterprise Products and Workday Adaptive Planning.

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PCI DSS

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products

Workday supports PCI DSS compliance within the scope of the Workday Secure Credit Card Environment, which is an isolated environment that stores, processes and transmits unmasked cardholder data through predefined integrations.

This environment undergoes annual assessment by Qualified Security Assessors against the current PCI DSS requirements. Workday has maintained compliance with PCI DSS since 2013. For customers who use the Workday Secure Credit Card environment, Workday can provide a copy of the annual assessment report upon request.

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TRUSTe Enterprise Privacy and Data Governance Certification

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Strategic Sourcing

Workday is a participant under the TRUSTe Enterprise Privacy & Data Governance Practices Programme.

This programme is designed to enable organisations such as Workday to demonstrate that their privacy and data governance practices for personal information comply with standards based on recognised laws and regulatory standards, including the OECD Privacy Guidelines, the APEC Privacy Framework, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), ISO 27001 International Standard for Information Security Management Systems and other privacy laws and regulations globally. 

See our TRUSTe certification status.

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SIG Questionnaire

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Strategic Sourcing, Workday Peakon Employee Voice, Workday VNDLY

The Standardised Information Gathering (SIG) questionnaire is an industry-standard compilation of questions used to assess information technology and data security across a broad spectrum of risk control areas.

The SIG is issued by Shared Assessments, a global organisation dedicated to third-party risk assurance. Workday self-assesses against the SIG annually, providing our customers with an in-depth view of our control environment against a standardised set of enquiries. Customers can access the SIG questionnaire on Workday Community.

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NIST CSF and NIST 800-171

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) provides guidance for organisations on how to improve their ability to prevent, detect and respond to cybersecurity risks. The NIST Privacy Framework provides guidance on measuring and improving an organisation’s Privacy programme. The NIST 800-171 standard relates to protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in non-federal Information Systems and Organisations.

Workday has mapped our relevant SOC 2 controls to the NIST CSF, NIST PF and NIST 800-171 standards. This mapping has been audited as part of the Workday SOC 2+ report.

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TrustArc and Privacy Shield

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Strategic Sourcing

Workday is an active Privacy Shield participant. TRUSTe is Workday’s third-party verification agent for the Privacy Shield.

See our Privacy Shield certification.

EU Cloud COC

EU Cloud Code of Conduct

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products, Workday Adaptive Planning

The EU Cloud Code of Conduct (CCoC) consists of a set of requirements that enable cloud service providers (CSPs) to demonstrate their capability to comply with GDPR.

Verify the Workday certification.

HIPAA

HIPAA

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products

Workday has completed a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) third-party attestation for the Workday Enterprise Products, which provides assurance that Workday has a HIPAA-compliance programme with adequate measures for saving, accessing and sharing individual medical and personal information.

Workday provides a whitepaper summarising the details of this assessment. Additionally, Workday will sign business associate agreements (BAAs) with our customers when requested. These agreements ensure that our customers are able to meet their HIPAA and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) compliance requirements.

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FedRAMP Moderate

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products

The Federal Risk and Authorisation Management Programme, or FedRAMP, is a US-government programme that enables federal agencies to adopt cloud-based systems into their IT environments. FedRAMP provides a standardised approach to security and risk assessment for cloud technologies and federal agencies to make sure that federal data is continuously protected at the highest level in the cloud.

Workday is FedRAMP Authorised status at the Moderate security impact level for Workday Government Cloud.

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G-Cloud

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Peakon Employee Voice

The G-Cloud framework is an agreement between the UK government and cloud-based service providers.

G-Cloud enables cloud-based service providers to apply and, once accepted, sell their cloud services to UK public sector organisations. The G-Cloud framework is updated annually by the governing body, Crown Commercial Services (CCS).

UK public sector organisations can currently purchase Workday service offerings via the CCS Digital Marketplace.

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Cyber Essentials

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Strategic Sourcing, Workday Peakon Employee Voice, Workday VNDLY

Cyber Essentials is a UK-government-backed scheme to help organisations protect against cyber-security threats by setting out baseline technical controls.

See our Cyber Essentials certificate.

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Australian IRAP

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products

The Australian Government maintains security documentation relating to the usage of ICT services, including cloud services. This is represented through the Information Security Manual (ISM) and the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF). The Infosec Registered Assessors Programme (IRAP), maintained by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), endorses individual assessors to review an organisation's effectiveness against controls in the ISM and PSPF. 

Workday engages a third-party assessor to perform an IRAP assessment of the suitability of the controls in the ISM and PSPF against Workday Production environments at the PROTECTED level.

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CSA STAR Self-Assessment

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Strategic Sourcing, Workday Peakon Employee Voice, Workday VNDLY

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR) Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ) Self-Assessment consolidates current information regarding security risks and controls into one industry-standard questionnaire (CSA STAR CAIQ).

Workday self-assesses against the CSA STAR CAIQ biennially, providing our customers with an in-depth view of our control environment. This document provides Workday customers with an in-depth view of the Workday control environment.

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TISAX

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products, Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday Strategic Sourcing

The Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange (TISAX) is administered by the ENX Association on behalf of the German Association of the Automotive Industry. This standard provides the European automotive industry with a consistent, standardised approach to information security systems.

Result available on the ENX Portal.

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CCCS CSP ITS Assessment

Applies to: Workday Enterprise Products

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) established the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Information Technology Security (ITS) Assessment Programme to assist Government of Canada (GC) departments and agencies in their evaluation of CSP services. CCCS provides advice and guidance on the technical, operational and procedural ITS capabilities of CSPs. The assessment determines if security processes and controls meet the GC public cloud security requirements for information and services up to Protected B, Medium Integrity and Medium Availability (PB/M/M) as published by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.


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