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Developing and Testing an Effective Breach Response PlanWhether or not a data breach is a disaster for the organization depends on the security team's response and that is based on how the team developed a breach response plan beforehand and if it was thoroughly tested. Inside this report, experts share how to:
-understand the technical environment,
-determine what types of incidents would trigger the plan,
-know which stakeholders need to be notified and how to do so,
-develop steps to contain the breach, collect evidence, and initiate recovery.
Incident Readiness and Building Response Playbook
In this special report, learn the Xs and Os of any good security incident readiness and response playbook.
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2/23/2015 | 11:06:20 AM
In my opinion, the entire problem is laid bare in that statement. The biggest issue is that those so-called leaders are not really up to the task. Elected officials tend to grant important positions to political allies, or to those with whom they have had long associations. Very little consideration is given to the person's ability to actually perform the task given to them. In a political environment, politics rule decision making processes and that, in and of itself, almost rules out selection of the best qualified individual. In many instances, those leaders aspire to expand their empire and sphere of influence much more than to actually perform their assigned tasks. As far as the "held to the fire" part, that is usually an even worse scenario. I'm reminded of the old saying "if a person screws up, promote them". Political environments tend to glaze over mistakes with regularity, and with little consequence. We need only look at the various scandals and security issues in the federal government for examples, and it gets even worse as you start looking at state and local levels where those events get very little press. I hate to sound so cynical about this whole thing; I would love to hear what other people think about this.