Security incidents can occur at any time with little or no warning. In the current threat landscape, you know it is not a matter of when but rather if you will have to deal with a cybersecurity incident in your organisation.

What are the costs of a breach?

A security incident may result in costly consequences if it isn’t properly managed and contained by a plan.

In most cases, organisations experience expensive downtime, where work-arounds and slowdowns drive up management and production costs and deadlines are blown out.

In addition to this, the damage to your organisation’s reputation can set you back years with clients and potential new contracts.

The risk of failure to meet your compliance requirements only adds to the situation, compounding layers of stress on senior executives, IT leaders and the security team.

How can the costs be avoided?

An Incident Response Plan that is documented, tested and communicated offers you the best chance to tame the chaos that follows a breach.

A properly formulated plan takes the ambiguity out of the situation, and delegates the raft of important tasks to the right people to get your business back on its feet as quickly as possible.

Want to learn more?

Join Shearwater’s Chief Technology Officer, Mark Hofman, as he shares his steps for building an Incident Response Plan to help you take control of a security incident.

Framed around the common and costly Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, Mark will offer actionable tips on setting up an incident response process and validating your incident response plans.

You will learn about:

• What defines an incident and why an incident response plan is crucial
• Key elements required to set the scope and success factors of an incident response plan
• How to assemble the incident response team, set up roles and delegate responsibilities
• How to make sure your plan is current and will evolve over time
• Your obligations under the Notifiable Data Breach scheme, privacy laws, and information security compliance requirements

If you’re interested in creating an incident response plan that protects your organisation, register your spot now.

Speaker

Mark Hofman
CTO – Shearwater Solutions

Mark Hofman is the Chief Technology Officer and Principal Security Consultant at Shearwater Solutions and has over 25 years’ experience in ICT security. He has worked for both private and government organisations and has provided consulting services to a wide range of organisations including the financial sector, private sector and government organisations.