Security Breach Responses: Inside the Notification Landscape

Because of what is at stake – including goodwill, stock price, fines, and the direct costs of investigation and mitigation– it is more important than ever for companies to: 1) have robust programs designed to identify risks, quickly respond to and investigate potential security incidents, and make technical and legal determinations regarding official and public responses; 2) have an incident response program mapping the appropriate actions to take; 3) have service providers vetted in advance available when needed; 4) train virtually the entire organization on their respective roles and; oh yeah 5) get someone within the organization to provide management and financial support for all of this.