Cyber Liability Series: How To Respond To A Breach Of Data Security

Despite being proactive and implementing security measures to ensure that your employees are trained and that effective security practices are in place, your organization's cyber security has been breached. Now what? Although, this may seem like the worst case scenario, there are still things your company can do to mitigate losses and protect the company from exposure to further liability.

Step 1: Uncover and contain the cause of the breach

Your first step in reacting to a breach is to determine what caused the breach in the first place. It is important to establish the cause so that you can rectify the issue and not let it happen again. There is no sense is taking steps to minimize the effect of the breach but not address the underlying cause that created the issue in the first place. Once you have addressed how the breach occurred, you can implement an action plan to deal with preventing it from happening again.