Incident Response Planning

Insights and Best Practices for Cyber Risk Managers

Protecting customer data is of paramount importance to organizations around the globe. In a world governed by a myriad of data protection laws, there is one universal practice to demonstrate good faith in protecting personal data, and that is breach preparedness.

Why a breach readiness plan?

• Risk Management: A written plan is essential to navigating through a complex crisis situation, reducing panic, increasing the chances for effective recover, and mitigating legal liability.
• Compliance: Whether you need to comply with the fifty different state breach notification laws in the United States, Canadian privacy laws or the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), demonstrating breach preparedness is quickly becoming a baseline standard of care.

It’s no secret that organizations face reputational risk if they fail to safeguard the sensitive information they were entrusted to protect. But perfect security is neither achievable nor expected. What is expected is that organizations act responsibly to contain and recover from the inevitable data breach.

The purpose of this whitepaper is to help your organization develop an effective, actionable data breach response plan by sharing our insights, best practices and lessons learned from more than 15 years of experience supporting the cyber insurance incident response community.