Building an Effective Data Breach Response Team for Your Organization
Understanding Data Breaches A data breach is a security incident that results in the unauthorized disclosure, theft, or compromise of sensitive data. This can include protected health information, financial data, personally identifiable information, or other confidential data. Data breaches can occur due to various reasons, including insider threats, phishing attacks, malware, ransomware, or physical theft […]
Essential Steps for Enhancing Your Cyber Insurance Readiness
Cyber Insurance Readiness: How to Demonstrate Incident Preparedness Cyber insurance exists to help you cover any losses from a data breach or other cyber incident. However, just like other types of insurance, your premiums will cost more if you consider a high-risk business. So, how can cyber insurers view you as a low-risk business instead? […]
What is Out-of-Band Crisis Management?
In our modern, hyper-connected world, digital communication that supports our daily lives and business operations is always at risk of being disrupted by the unexpected. Natural disasters, cyber-attacks, and other unforeseen crises loom as constant threats, capable of severing the critical communication lifelines businesses depend upon. When these primary channels are thrown offline, the consequences […]
Best Practices for Business Recovery Plan and Disaster Continuity
Keeping your business operational is exceedingly challenging in the face of evolving threats and global uncertainty. Planning is critical to remaining operational, keeping customers happy, and generating revenue. Business recovery is a multi-stage process that follows an incident or crisis. It involves the creation of a business recovery plan designed to minimize losses and ensure […]
The Incident Response Life Cycle: What You Need to Know
Modern organizations’ threats have never been more varied and potentially more damaging. Mitigating these threats is always the first line of defense, but what happens if an attacker makes it past your defenders? From a time and investment perspective — response planning is equally as critical as incident prevention. IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach […]
Compliance Best Practices: 5 Steps to Demonstrating Incident Response Readiness
Incident Response and Compliance Best Practices: 5 Steps to Demonstrating Readiness Organizations across all industries must meet compliance standards while also facing the need to respond rapidly to any business-impacting incident. Incident response readiness and compliance can complement each other, even strengthening each other in the process. But that won’t happen on its own—you need […]
10 Steps to Achieve Maximum Incident Response Readiness
Incident response is essential for organizations aiming to minimize the impact of security incidents or other possible events that can jeopardize business continuity. A well-prepared incident response plan ensures that an organization can swiftly and effectively address security breaches, protecting its information assets and maintaining business continuity. Yet, one study found that 77% of […]
AI Disaster Recovery: Strategies for Resilience in Crisis Management
Embracing AI Disaster Recovery to Close Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Gaps Business continuity planning is a necessary practice so your company can keep generating revenue, communicating with customers, or providing services. Without a mature continuity program in place, a range of possible incidents can render your organization unable to operate. However, developing and operating […]
Crisis Management and Incident Response vs Cyber Crisis Management: What’s the Difference?
Crisis management is an overarching field focusing on preventing and responding to a wide range of crises. However, cyber crisis management is often a major focus when it comes to crisis management — which is often detrimental to organizations’ preparedness and response. A recent study found that crisis-level cyberattacks account for only 28% of crises, while […]
Building a Business Case for Incident Preparedness Platforms and Processes
Resolving incidents quickly is critical for any organization, but it can take way too much time without the right incident preparedness program in place. Organizations need the right platforms, people, and processes to rapidly recover from incidents, minimize damage, and return to normal operations. Yet, building a business case for investing in incident preparedness […]