The impact of a data breach

Almost everyone has been impacted by a data breach. Data breach effects can scale from requiring employees to change their credentials to larger scale cyberattacks that involve malware or ransomware.

Cyber incidents including data breaches, phishing and ransomware have become commonplace — a foregone conclusion for operating in a digital economy. While everyone knows that the internet never truly forgets, and data lives in perpetuity in far-flung corners of the web, the impacts on organizations, employees and incident responders can also take a mental toll.