Cyber Security Data Breach Response: Hacker and Data Security breaches often require a team of specialists including network engineers, computer forensics examiners, firewall consultants, outside PR marketing professionals, and lawyers.
Cyber Security Data Breach Response
A security breach is any incident that results in unauthorized access of data, applications, services, networks and/or devices by bypassing their underlying security mechanisms. A security breach occurs when an individual or an application illegitimately enters a private, confidential or unauthorized logical IT perimeter.
Unfortunately no organization of any size or industry is completely safe against cyberattacks and becoming breach. While you may not think you are a target, attackers will attempt to make money from any viable opportunity that crosses their path. This creates a situation in which it is not a matter of if, but when, you will experience an security breach incident.
CyberSecOp help your organization to Identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities which are important to reduce the likelihood of a breach, but you must assume that preventative controls will fail at some point. Limit the potential of an incident actually resulting in damages and if damages occur, minimizing them as much as possible.
Why you need a Security Data Breach Response Team
Hacker and Data Security breaches often require a team of specialists including network engineers, computer forensics examiners, firewall consultants, outside PR marketing professionals, and lawyers. The legal team often includes corporate defense and privacy litigators, plus attorneys experienced in the nuances of reviewing insurance policies and maximizing the chances of having such an intrusion covered by the insurance carrier. A failure to execute each of the important response elements timely and with expertise could create additional legal and compliance issues for the impacted entity, leading to further financial fallout and economic damages. Attorneys knowledgeable in compliance and reporting obligations plus other statues of the law often need to be engaged on short notice to help the breached entity understand its reporting obligations in order to protect the firm from potential future litigation.