Data Breaches: Crisis and Opportunity

Product Description

“Data breaches are inevitable. It is said that there are two types of companies: those that have had a data breach and those that don’t yet know they have had one. In preparing for that inevitability,
Data Breaches: Crisis and Opportunity is an invaluable guide to the history of some of the most significant data breaches, to what you can do to ensure your firm does not become another statistic and, in the event it does happen, to minimize the damage of that breach.” —
Ben Rothke, RSA Book of the Month Selection

Protect Your Organization Against Massive Data Breaches and Their Consequences

Data breaches can be catastrophic, but they remain mysterious because victims don’t want to talk about them. In
Data Breaches, world-renowned cybersecurity expert Sherri Davidoff shines a light on these events, offering practical guidance for reducing risk and mitigating consequences. Reflecting extensive personal experience and lessons from the world’s most damaging breaches, Davidoff identifies proven tactics for reducing damage caused by breaches and avoiding common mistakes that cause them to spiral out of control.

You’ll learn how to manage data breaches as the true crises they are; minimize reputational damage and legal exposure; address unique challenges associated with health and payment card data; respond to hacktivism, ransomware, and cyber extortion; and prepare for the emerging battlefront of cloud-based breaches.

Understand what you need to know about data breaches, the dark web, and markets for stolen data
Limit damage by going beyond conventional incident response
Navigate high-risk payment card breaches in the context of PCI DSS
Assess and mitigate data breach risks associated with vendors and third-party suppliers
Manage compliance requirements associated with healthcare and HIPAA
Quickly respond to ransomware and data exposure cases
Make better decisions about cyber insurance and maximize the value of your policy
Reduce cloud risks and properly prepare for cloud-based data breaches   

Data Breaches is indispensable for everyone involved in breach avoidance or response: executives, managers, IT staff, consultants, investigators, students, and more. Read it
before a breach happens!

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From the Back Cover

Why do some organizations emerge from a data breach unscathed, while others are badly damaged, or even collapse? How can you make smart choices to protect your organization before and after a data breach? This book exposes the high-octane world of data breach disclosure and response, where IT help desk staff have the power to save or destroy a company, and cutting-edge attorneys must often parachute in to save the day. You’ll watch as one of the world’s most experienced cybersecurity professionals dissects high-profile data breaches, reveals what happened, and reveals exactly what you can do to navigate a massive data breach — quickly mitigating damage to your digital assets, finances, and organizational reputation.
 
Sherri Davidoff teaches through storytelling, making this book powerfully accessible and practically useful to everyone from the boardroom to the server closet. Along the way, she reveals what the press didn’t cover about attacks on ChoicePoint, TJ Maxx, Heartland, Target, Anthem, and many other leading organizations — and presenting specific lessons you can start applying right now, regardless of your technical or business infrastructure.
 
Drawing on her immense personal experience with digital forensics, incident response, security awareness training, penetration testing, and web security assessment — and her work teaching in venues from Black Hat to the Department of Defense — Davidoff introduces today’s most comprehensive and practical framework for data breach response. You’ll discover:

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