Section 8

Legal Requirements and Considerations

There are three main areas within the legal scope of incident response to be considered: first, privacy; second, ethics; and third, investigations themselves.

Keywords

Law; privacy; ethics

Legal disclaimer: This section’s information is merely to explain the process and foundation for the incident response activities. It is not meant to be a legal opinion, please consult your corporate legal counsel for full legal opinion and advise.

There are three main areas within the legal scope of incident response to be considered.

1. First—privacy

2. Second—ethics

3. Third—investigations themselves.

Then several legal areas of focus on Incident Response and evidence gathered during incident handling activities are ...

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