When the alarms go off: 10 key steps to take after a data breach

guest · Nov 12, 2021

When the alarms go off: 10 key steps to take after a data breach
– here’s what your organization should do, and avoid doing, in the case of a breach
November 11, 2021
https://www.welivesecurity.com/2021/11/11/alarms-go-off-10-steps-take-data-breach/

Globally, data breaches are estimated to cost in excess of $4.2m per incident today. And they’re happening on an unprecedented scale as organizations build out their digital infrastructure – and unwittingly expand the corporate attack surface. In the US, for example, the number of reported breaches by Q3 2021 had already exceeded the number for the whole of 2020. It takes way too long for the average organization to find and contain data breaches – an estimated 287 days today.

However, once the alarms go off, what happens next? The presence of ransomware actors, an increasingly common precursor to modern data breaches, will complicate matters even further. Here’s what to do, and what to avoid doing, following a breach.
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Whatever happens, customers increasingly expect that the organizations they do business with will suffer security incidents. It’s how you react that will determine whether they stay or leave – and what the financial and reputational damage will be.
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