Mandatory Data Breach May 2017

Mandatory Data Breach Notification Is In– Here’s All You Need To Know There are approximately 10 months to go until your organisation will have to fess up if it experiences a serious data breach. Whilst that may sound like a long time away, the requirement to notify is only the tip of the iceberg.  It’s a reminder to all organisations covered by the Privacy Act to have adequate measures in place to protect information security and to have a privacy governance framework in place. As a privacy leader in your organisation, you should now be looking at your processes and procedures for managing data breaches and assessing your organisation’s capability to respond to them.  You should be: ✔ Briefing all relevant stakeholders on the roles that they will play ✔ Training staff on the steps expected by the regulator when responding to privacy breaches ✔ Implementing internal processes to streamline these requirements in […]