Chapter 4. Post-Breach Review
Learning from mistakes
If every cloud has a silver lining, then a data breach is the chance to put in place all the security checkpoints that should have stopped the leak in the first place.
A breach might be an expensive embarrassment but, with good post-crisis assessment and action, further (potentially worse) security problems can be minimised.
‘It is of fundamental importance that lessons are learned from these breaches,’ says Richard Thomas (UK Information Commissioner).
While the damage may already have been done, now is the best time to put in place systems to safeguard against the problem happening again, and also to formulate a plan for dealing with future crises, drawing on lessons learned.
According to the ICO, ...
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