Michael Gregg of SearchNetworking.com writes:

You have just gotten the call from an associate at work that the network you’re responsible for has been hacked. You’re going to need to make some decisions very quickly as to what needs to be done. Individuals who haven’t planned for such an event may actually be thinking, “Do I have a current copy of my resume?”

There’s no room here to feel that you’re invincible against such an attack. Just last December, Guidance Software, Inc., a company that develops forensic and incident-response software found this out the hard way when it was reported that a hack attack cost them 3,800 customer credit card numbers. Privacyrights.org listed eleven security breaches in just the month of December 2005. If you’re faced with such a reality as these eleven companies were, hopefully you had the forethought to establish an incident response (IR) plan. It’s really one of the most important steps, in that you are coming to the realization that an attack could happen to you - and if it were to occur, the IR plan would detail how you would deal with it, what steps you would take, and who would respond. Such a plan would need to address the following questions…

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