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The Changing Face of Incident Response

By Larry Gagnon
July 01, 2022

The drumbeat of cyberattacks is beating in an ever-faster cadence and the legal community is no exception. According to the American Bar Association, in 2020 alone, 29% of surveyed law firms said they experienced some type of cyber attack, an increase from 2019.

In its Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020, IBM reported that the average data breach cost its victim a total of $3.86 million and took 280 days to fully identify and remediate. That was the bad news. The good news, however, was that organizations that are able to act quickly to contain and stop a breach are spared a considerable portion of these expenses. Particularly, those with both incident response (IR) teams and fully tested IR plans in place saved an average of $2 million in breach costs while simultaneously limiting their legal liability and minimizing reputational damage.

Whereas IR investigations can be conducted internally by an organization's own security team, most companies will look to external investigators for support as they tend to have more in-depth, relevant knowledge, not to mention greater specialist skills at their disposal.

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