Breach Response
What is Breach Response?
The coordinated set of actions taken by an organization following the discovery of a data breach, including investigation, notification, and remediation.
Terms that appear alongside breach response
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as breach response. The number is how many controls name both.
- breach notification 20 shared controls
- compliance 17 shared controls
- gdpr 16 shared controls
- audit 14 shared controls
- nist 13 shared controls
- encryption 12 shared controls
- data subject 11 shared controls
- cybersecurity 11 shared controls
Frameworks that govern breach response
What the standards actually require on breach response
Requirements naming breach response across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Controllers must respond to personal data breaches and may be required to notify the APD and affected individuals.
AO-PDPL-18 · Breach Response →Detect, contain, and document personal data breaches, and notify PDPA and affected data subjects in line with regulator guidance.
AM-DPA-15 · Breach Response and Notification →The data controller must maintain a data breach management and response plan covering identification and escalation, roles (including the DPO), containment and mitigation, the notification decision, communications to the Commissioner and data subjects, and pos...
malaysia-pdpa-2010::DBN-11 · DBN Guideline paras. 11 to 13 and Circular 2/2025 paras. 6 and 7: breach response plan, processor obligations, assessment and root-cause remediation →Implement Section 6 PII breach response including: incident response for PII breaches + breach notification process per OMB Circular A-130 + OMB M-17-12 (federal civilian) + state breach notification laws + GDPR Article 33-34 + post-incident analysis and lesso...
NISTSP122-6 · PII Breach Response and Incident Handling →Determine applicability and maintain a documented data breach response plan per the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme established by the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2017 + Part IIIC of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) administered by the Office of...
AUNDB-A1 · Applicability, Scope, and Data Breach Response Plan →Develop a data breach response plan, using the OAIC's guidance on handling personal information security breaches to respond effectively.
oaic-privacy-management-framework::2.9 · 2.9 Develop a data breach response plan →Questions people ask about breach response
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