Posts tagged: incident response

Fail to plan, plan to fail… incident response preparation

Consider this:  A review of an application or database that processes and stores customer information, including personally identifiable information, has been compromised.  What are you going to do? Many organizations fail to plan for a compromise and unfortunately, often exacerbate the damage while attempting an “on the fly” response to an incident.  The absolute worst [...]

Lawsuit, breaches and bashing… oh my!

Though it seems obvious that corporations have an obligation to protect the sensitive information they use for business it still amazes me that corporate behavior in this regard is still quite dismissive.  Lawsuits and public embarrassment seem to be the only catalyst for action for many organizations.  That is kind of sad.  Not only is [...]