Data Breach Incident Management Policy

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What is a Data Breach Incident Management Policy?

Minimise the impact of a data breach on your company by ensuring a clear plan is in place to ensure a quick, effective and orderly response to information security incidents. 

Whether it’s an email that has been sent to the wrong recipient, or a laptop that has been lost, it’s important that there are clear instructions on the steps that should be undertaken to minimise the impact. Those initial steps will include containing the breach, understanding the impact and establishing the steps to be taken to resolve the issue. 

Why is a Data Breach Incident Management Policy important?

Clear communication and understanding of roles and responsibilities are key to minimising the impact of a data breach. In some cases, external parties, such as the police, Information Commissioner’s Office and the individual data subjects may need to be contacted. This policy provides details of the process and procedures that should be followed at each stage of a breach. 

Alongside this policy, a data breach report and register are available as downloadable documents or within the Adoptech portal. 

ISO 27001 Data Breach Incident Management Policy

Data Protection policies are part of the requirements of the ISO 27001 Certification standard. The Data Breach Incident Management policy is one of those ISO 27001 policies required, you can take a look at the full list here.

Data Breach Incident Management Policy Sections

Reporting data breaches

Initial incident management

Investigation and assessment

Data breach notification

Incident review

Data Breach Incident Management Policy Related

Also known as: Incident management procedure, Information security incident management

Related terms: Incident Management ISO 27001, Data Breach Management, Incident management policy, Incident response, Contact with authorities, Contact with special interest groups

Framework references: ISO 27001

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