{"id":2467,"date":"2020-10-30T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T11:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2023-10-27T12:37:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T07:07:03","slug":"5-steps-to-take-when-a-data-breach-hits-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/blog\/5-steps-to-take-when-a-data-breach-hits-you\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Steps to Take When a Data Breach Hits You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The majority of today&#8217;s successful businesses are well aware of common data protection concerns and place a great deal of confidence in their own efforts to avoid a breach of data security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rank-math-toc-block\" id=\"rank-math-toc\"><h2>Table of Contents<\/h2><nav><ol><li><a href=\"#what-is-a-data-breach\">What is a Data Breach?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#why-do-data-breaches-occur\">Why do data breaches occur?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#steps-to-take-after-data-breach\">Steps to take after data breach<\/a><ol><li><a href=\"#howto-step-60692baca0503\">Investigate the Incident<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#howto-step-60692baca0505\">Inform Users and Management<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#howto-step-60692baca0506\">Identify Probable Source<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#howto-step-60692baca0507\">Enhance Laws<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#howto-step-60692baca0508\">Periodic Assessment<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ol><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It can be huge damage to the organization if it&#8217;s going through a security breach.&nbsp; It could just be the hardest thing that your business would ever have to deal with.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A hack of your infrastructure has no silver lining, but there are steps you may take to minimise the harm and avoid breaches from occurring in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-is-a-data-breach\">What is a Data Breach?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A Data breach happens when an organisation&#8217;s underlying security mechanisms are bypassed, leading to unauthorised access to private information. They can vary from low-risk to high-risk accidents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The security framework that the company has, such as a firewall, usually catches breaches. If an unknown user violates the security policy by attempting to obtain unauthorised access, the systems will alert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-border-color\" style=\"border-color:#e51015\"><blockquote><p>The average total cost to a company of a data breach is $3.86 million<\/p><cite>according to a study by the Ponemon Institute<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Corporations and corporations are particularly tempting targets for cybercriminals, mainly because of the vast volume of information that can be obtained in one fell swoop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"why-do-data-breaches-occur\">Why do data breaches occur?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Cybercrime is a profitable industry for attackers and continues to grow. Attackers seek personally identifiable information to steal money, compromise identities, or sell over the dark web. Data breaches can occur for a number of reasons, including accidentally, but targeted attacks are typically carried out in these four ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"steps-to-take-after-data-breach\">Steps to take after data breach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If your business or organisation has been violated, it is important to respond to it quickly and effectively to mitigate the harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are five steps that you can take after you have encountered a breach of security.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"rank-math-howto\" class=\"rank-math-block\" >\n<div class=\"rank-math-howto-description\">\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rank-math-steps \">\n<div id=\"howto-step-60692baca0503\" class=\"rank-math-step\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-step-title \">Investigate the Incident<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-step-content \"><p>It is necessary to gather information on the incident to verify that an incident has occurred (i.e. who, what, where, and when the incident occurred)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"howto-step-60692baca0505\" class=\"rank-math-step\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-step-title \">Inform Users and Management<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-step-content \"><p>Inform management with a review of the incident if the violation is real.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"howto-step-60692baca0506\" class=\"rank-math-step\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-step-title \">Identify Probable Source<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-step-content \"><p>Investigate and identify the source of data breach.\u00a0 For instance, was the breach caused by an open port firewall, system malware, a successful email phishing attack, obsolete antivirus software, or an employee who disclosed confidential data unknowingly?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"howto-step-60692baca0507\" class=\"rank-math-step\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-step-title \">Enhance Laws<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-step-content \"><p>With the following experience enforce and update security standards. enforce policies such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/solutions\/dmarc-plus\/\">DMARC<\/a> , processes and technologies to avoid a recurrence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"howto-step-60692baca0508\" class=\"rank-math-step\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-step-title \">Periodic Assessment<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-step-content \"><p>To make sure the system is uptodate and patches regularly, conduct periodic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/services\/vapt\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"589\">risk assessments<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/services\/vapt\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"589\">network penetration testing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of today&#8217;s successful businesses are well aware of common data protection concerns and place a great deal of confidence in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":2477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[498,174,304,6,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-cybersecurity","category-data-breach","category-dmarc","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8910,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/8910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikaj.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}