As the Covid-19 Pandemic forces more employees than ever before to work from home (“WFH”), businesses face new and different data privacy and security risks. This change is not lost on U.S. regulators ...

When a cyber incident occurs, quickly discovering it — and shutting it down — is crucial. Having an incident response plan in place can help position state and local governments to swiftly react and ...

Reported incidents of data breaches have reached record levels over the last two years. 1 Given this reality, a data security incident response plan is no longer a luxury; it is a vital tool in every ...

Tanya Candia is an international management expert, specializing for more than 25 years in information security strategy and communication for public- and private-sector organizations. No organization ...

In K–12, cybercrime is a constant threat. Every day, school IT teams face and work to defend against cyber breaches. This makes cybersecurity critical. “We see thousands of attacks of all kinds yearly ...

Incident response plans are an important part of any security team’s repertoire, but figuring out where to start can be difficult. Unfortunately, it’s not a matter of if an incident happens but when.

Cyberattacks are inevitable in the interconnected digital world. This unsettling truth has been propelled by the exponential growth of the cybercrime-as-a-service model, which lowers the barrier to ...

The primary step towards a robust incident response plan is to get testing. It’s crucial not to wait until you’re faced with an issue to test all elements of the plan, especially around critical ...

The DePauw University Data Incident Response Plan outlines the University’s actions following a data breach or other type of data related incident in order to ensure timeliness of response, compliance ...

It’s almost a no-brainer that all organizations, regardless of their size, need some form of cybersecurity. Cybersecurity not only means that you protect your digital assets against a cyberattack, but ...

It doesn't matter how large your organization is, you are at risk and sooner or later cyber criminals will try to attack you. It’s not a matter of whether your organization will face a security ...

Despite being focused on post-breach activities, cyber incident response planning has emerged as a key cybersecurity control in reducing an organization’s likelihood of experiencing a breach-related ...