Managing a Cyber Attack in Your Company
Cybercrime is on the rise, even if businesses remain ignorant to the fact. All business owners should take preventative measures to secure their business’s operations, data, and security. Both an internal and external plan of action should be created to outline what to do if there’s a data breach in the business. Take a look at how to handle your business in the event of a data breach.
Employee Training
All team members should be prepped on how to spot and deal with potential threats through regular training. It may be helpful to run some test situations with all of your employees to ensure they understand the best practice to keep a business going in the event of a breach.
Communication
Your communication department should know exactly what to do if there’s a data breach by means of handling communications across the workforce and externally following a breach.
Media
Staff should not talk to the media if the event of a breach. The CEO and board should notify stakeholders and regulators immediately and then prepare a statement for the public. There’s nothing worse than hearing about a breach from an outside source and losing the faith of loyal consumers.
Technology and Operations
Your IT and operations teams will need to identify the cause of the breach and secure any and all information as quickly as possible. Then they will need to take steps to recover the systems and get things back up and running smoothly again.
The key to handling a data breach is to be as efficient as possible while mitigating damage to your company’s systems and reputation.
Despite your best safeguards, there is always a risk of data breaches. By implementing these practices and securing reliable commercial insurance, you can rest assured that you have the right protection in place. To find quality insurance for all of your business needs, contact the professionals at Chambers & Company Insurance Brokers.