When, Not if: Protecting Your Corporate Reputation In A Data Breach

By Fiona Parker & Alec Peck:

Data breaches are now so common that it’s hard to keep up. In any given week there are reports of attacks across all sectors and geographies.  At the time of writing the Yahoo! data breach could potentially involve up to a mind boggling 1 billion users.

By the time this article is published, many more less headline grabbing breaches will have taken place.

It is becoming increasingly clear that security is no longer strictly an IT function and is now at the scale where it needs to be on the boardroom agenda.

When clients came to us in the past they would base crisis preparedness scenarios around a site accident or a critical failure in one of their core business functions.  Nowadays clients are increasingly concerned about whether or not they are prepared for a data breach.

But should they be? The simple answer is yes.  Very.   And who can blame them.  In Asia-Pacific, companies are particularly vulnerable. Recent research by security company, FireEye, revealed that 28 per cent of organisations in Asia-Pacific were hit with an advanced cyber-attack in the second half of 2015, nearly double the global average of 15 per cent.

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