Tracking Incidents and Data Breaches with Smart(er) Breach Management
The following is the eighth post in a new blog series from Exterro CEO Bobby Balachandran, where he shares his thoughts on the issues legal leaders care about and his vision for addressing them. Read Bobby's last blog here.
The business landscape today is more fraught with risks from data breaches than ever before. Organizations face an array of external threats and complex regulatory requirements, and simply discovering an incident is no longer a sufficient response. Proactive organizations must navigate complicated issues such as defining legal privilege, understanding varying regulatory thresholds, and meeting strict notification deadlines.
The Shift Toward Defensible Incident Response
While security is critical, what happens after an incident is often what determines the legal and reputational outcome. Regulators generally avoid severe punishments when companies can:
- Thoroughly document their processes.
- Demonstrate diligence in their response.
- Show a sustained commitment to doing the right thing.
Introducing Smart Breach Review
In late May, Exterro launched Smart Breach Review, a game-changer for high-speed, high-volume breach response. Key capabilities include:
- Unprecedented Speed: Ingestion speeds of 1.5 hours per TB—up to 33 times faster than competing products.
- Massive Scalability: Supports up to 1,000 simultaneous reviewers to handle the largest data breaches.
- Self-Learning AI: Pre-trained to recognize all types of personal data, the AI gets smarter with every review conducted.
- Automated Compliance: Automatically produces the data needed for regulatory notifications, crucial for meeting deadlines as short as 72 hours.
A Unified Legal GRC Approach
By combining Smart Breach Review with Exterro Incident and Breach Management and the Forensic Toolkit (FTK), organizations gain:
- Endpoint Visibility: Faster, more targeted investigations directly at the source.
- Root Cause Analysis: A clear understanding of how the breach occurred.
- Proactive Risk Profiling: The ability to identify sensitive data types within databases before an incident happens.
Exterro continues to expand its Legal GRC platform to ensure that process automation and data science cover the evolving legal and regulatory needs of every organization.
