article thumbnail

Do you have a data breach response plan?

IT Governance BC

An effective incident response programme can help you detect, react to and respond to incidents in a fast, planned and coordinated fashion, limiting the damage, reducing recovery time and costs, and enabling you to meet the GDPR’s requirements. Only 30 % of organisations have an incident response plan.

article thumbnail

Ransomware attack: Who ya gonna call, Mike?

Plan B Consulting

A while ago I was the Emergency Planning Manager for a large company, as they had many international travellers, travelling to all parts of the world. Attacks take place over hours and days Attacks and negotiations are conducted in a speedy fashion over hours and days, not weeks and months like during a kidnap negotiation.

Travel 52
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Ransomware attack: Who ya gonna call, Mike?

Plan B Consulting

A while ago I was the Emergency Planning Manager for a large company, as they had many international travellers, travelling to all parts of the world. Attacks and negotiations are conducted in a speedy fashion over hours and days, not weeks and months like during a kidnap negotiation. Attacks take place over hours and days.

Travel 52
article thumbnail

Business, Interrupted: The Resilience Movement and the New Normal for Business Continuity

Castellan

Pre-pandemic, many organizations—even those with pandemic plans —hadn’t considered just how long a global emergency might last, meaning several assumptions made in continuity and disaster response planning just didn’t hold water. “So, And supply chain, I think that’s another.

article thumbnail

Writing Incident Scenarios: An Operational Resilience Trend Returns

Plan B Consulting

This week I talk about writing incident scenarios and how different business continuity plans have come back in style. The return of the mullet What was once fashionable always tends to come back into fashion at some point. Both are terrorist attacks, but have very different impacts and require very different responses.

article thumbnail

Writing Incident Scenarios: An Operational Resilience Trend Returns

Plan B Consulting

This week I talk about writing incident scenarios and how different business continuity plans have come back in style. What was once fashionable always tends to come back into fashion at some point. Fashion from my youth has come round again, as we are seeing the return of shoulder pads, big hair and the mullet.