Security News > 2024 > January > If you prepare, a data security incident will not cause an existential crisis

Why is it that when a company becomes aware of a potential data security incident, the team working on it have an immediate and overwhelming feeling that the company is doomed? And yet, when there's another kind of high-risk event, such as an ethics investigation, it doesn't cause the same apocalyptic feelings?

Cybersecurity professionals in legal and IT security departments have key roles in working through a data security incident, but often fail to build up a trusted relationship in advance.

Who is impacted and what is the impact of your operations shutting down? Start planning now for how you will work through these issues so that when an incident occurs, you know the discrete steps you will take to assess risks and to determine to whom you will report an incident.

Familiarize yourself with your company's incident response plan and figure out if it works before an incident unfolds.

You still may feel like you are choosing between a rock and a hard place when an incident unfolds, but knowing how you will make that choice and trusting your partners in the process may help you not to view the incident is an "End of days" event.

With proper planning, we can all start looking at data security incidents as manageable business risks and not existential crises.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/09/data-security-incident/