New to the IAPP Resource Center is the Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) Monograph Data Security Breaches: Incident Preparedness and Response. Authored by Jena Valdetero, CIPP/US, and David Zetoony of Bryan Cave LLP with a forward by Federal Trade Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen, the handbook provides a basic framework to assist in-house legal departments with handling a security incident. It explains security incidents, outlines ways in-house counsel can help prepare for an incident and offers steps that should be taken in responding to an incident as well as costs involved. “I believe this WLF Monograph will be a useful reference for in-house counsel as they prepare for and encounter security incidents,” Ohlhausen writes.
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