Event Summary

Data breaches are all too common and present a very serious threat to all types of businesses, public sector organisations and charities. Failure to handle a breach well could result in long term damage to your brand’s reputation and perhaps lead to a fine or other enforcement action.

Attend this one-day workshop ‘Preventing and Responding to a Data Breach’ and learn how to identify and respond to a data breach robustly and effectively.

Designed for public and private sector organisations, this workshop will take you through the key steps in the lifecycle of a data breach:

• Identifying a data breach
• Key threats and common types of data breach (both cyber and non-cyber)
• Acting decisively in the first 24 hours!
• Risk assessment and damage control
• Complying with legal processes and reporting procedures
• Learning lessons from past experience

This course will help you to develop strategies to enhance your procedures and protect your organisation from serious financial, reputational, legal and other risks.

Through a range of interactive exercises using different real-life scenarios you’ll be able to raise questions, discuss risks, consider actions to take and test your skills.

Expert speakers will share their experiences of advising high profile organisations. Their knowledge of recent incidents will help you embed learnings into your own response plan.

Key Topics

• Enhanced knowledge and skills on how to identify and triage a data breach
• Improved understanding of how to assess and benchmark risks
• Ability to assess when a breach should be reported and when to notify those affected
• Expertise to assess whether data breach procedures are up to scratch
• Best practice for staff training as a first point for prevention and detection