Security News > 2021 > October > Incident Response: 5 Principles to Boost the Infosec/Legal Relationship

Around half of organizations polled for Kroll's The State of Incident Response 2021 report said that their teams lack clarity around when to engage legal counsel about a potential incident.

The multi-layered nature of incident response demands input from resources across an organization, particularly legal.

It is important for the infosec team to receive legal consultation on the development of a data-privacy program, while the legal team must also be educated on baseline cybersecurity.

The need for a symbiotic relationship between infosec and legal is never more pressing than when implementing new technologies.

Infosec should keep legal apprised about the scope and type of each event in a forensic investigation, so that they can determine the most effective response.

It is only by fostering collaboration between their infosec and legal teams that organizations can avoid the potential pitfalls of incident response.

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