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Aligning Privacy and Security Incident Response

Privacy and security may have different terminology and short-term objectives, but their overarching mission is the same: to protect the organization and its stakeholders. With proactive relationship-building, ongoing communication to build awareness, and with integration to enable an efficient, collaborative workflow, both teams can achieve their individual and overarching goals better than either would alone.

How Do You Define Privacy Risk?

As breach costs increase, how does an organization decide where to invest its finite funds? And how do you define privacy risk? There’s one area where the data is clear: incident response. Forming a cross-functional IR team and empowering them with the right tools can have a huge financial impact on breach costs for a relatively small expense.

Unlocking Your Digital Transformation Strategy

As I continue to share my thoughts on the recently published 2022 RadarFirst Privacy Incident Benchmark Report, I turn my attention to the topic of unlocking your digital transformation strategy. The phrase “digital transformation” is commonly used, and highly desired in maturing companies and industries; however, successful outcomes require the same rigor as we take with, say, product testing.

Discovery to Assessment Timelines Down 20% for RadarFirst Users

In our latest benchmark report, we explore incident management timelines from “Discovery to Assessment,” to learn more about how our users identify and triage incidents through privacy risk assessment. From this assessment, we’re able to demonstrate that across all industries, we have helped our customers reduce this time by over 20% through the continued use of our product.

11 Privacy Regulatory Enforcement Trends

What are the biggest trends in the privacy regulatory space? In the latest The Privacy Collective, Kelly Matoney, executive director of privacy at Vista Consulting Group, talks with Lauren Wallace, RadarFirst’s chief privacy officer and general counsel. Read the blog to discover the 11 biggest privacy regulatory enforcement trends in 2021.

Avoid Confusion, Delays, and Redundancy in Incident Resolution

Despite continued investment into security prevention, organizations report that the number of data incidents which occur has continued to rise year and year. In October, Sylvia Sandoval, Director of Privacy Operations at USAA joined us for our 17th session of The Privacy Collective, “Breaking Barriers for Efficient, Collaborative Incident Resolution” to discuss how organizations can establish efficient incident response processes by connecting silos, establishing centralized teams, and building trust with communication.