3 Steps To Successfully & Ethically Navigate A Data Breach
DARKReading, Monday, June 26,2023
In this day of "not if, but when" for breaches, transparency and full disclosure are important to salvage a company's reputation and keep public trust.
According to the latest report from the Identity Theft Research Center, there were 1,802 data breaches affecting more than 422 million victims in 2022. In today's volatile threat landscape, it's no longer a question of if your organization gets breached, but when - and more importantly, how - you will respond.
So, while it's certainly up to CISOs and other cybersecurity leaders to take the necessary steps to prevent data breaches, it's just as much their responsibility to respond to them in the right way when they happen. We've seen how company leaders have mishandled these delicate situations, and we've witnessed the consequences. Sweeping a critical cyberattack under the rug, playing the blame game, misleading, or trying to sugarcoat the situation is an easy way to lose public trust and suffer reputational damage that's difficult to come back from.