The do's and don'ts of data breaches

Networking Technology Update This newsletter is sponsored by ShoreTel eBook: IP Telephony from A to Z Get the book on VoIP, from vendor evaluation and selection to ensuring reliability and security. Whether you're considering a rollout or you've already deployed, you'll quickly get up to speed on the most important IP telephony issues and factors. Networking Technology Update, 06/20/07 The do’s and don’ts of data breaches * How security professionals can lessen the impact By Cara Garretson VoIP: Lessons from Early Adopters Experts say VoIP isnt a magic wand that will solve all of an organizations communications challenges right out of the box. Learn why VoIP may not produce expected savings and productivity gains, and other lessons from early adopters. Click Here to Watch Believe it or not, a data breach isn’t the worst thing that could happen to your organization. Reacting poorly to the incident could be, however. Experts agree every organization that stores personal or financial information about customers, partners or employees, or that has intellectual property in electronic form should be considered a target — that’s arguably just about every organization doing business. Instead of assuming data breaches happen only to large financial services companies or retailers, companies large and small in every industry should be prepared to react to help minimize damage and quickly restore customer confidence, they say. “It makes all the difference in the world” if a company is prepared to respond to a data breach or other type of cyberintrusion, says Tom Bowers, managing director of Security Constructs, a security services firm based in Philadelphia. Here is a list of what companies should do and what they should avoid doing in the case of a data breach, besides putting a computer-emergency response team in place to react to such incidents. The list is compiled from interviews with consultants and security experts who have had to deal with these incidents or who have been called in to help companies immediately following an attack. Check out that list here. And to learn how to create a computer-emergency response team by clicking here.

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