When data is lost, stolen or misused, two things happen at once: a compliance clock starts, and a potential dispute begins. The GDPR gives you 72 hours to notify the supervisory authority of a notifiable personal data breach, and at the same time you may need to act against whoever caused or exploited the leak. Handling both well, under pressure, is what protects the business.
The compliance side is a defined sequence: assess what happened, contain it, decide whether the breach is notifiable, prepare the staged notifications, and document every step. The enforcement side is about recovery and accountability: identifying the source of a leak, acting against misuse of confidential data or databases, and pursuing the responsible party where the loss is serious. The two run in parallel and need to be coordinated from the first hour.
Breach response sits in the Enforce stage of our 360 method. It is the enforcement counterpart to the Protect-stage work in DPO as a Service and data and database rights protection, and it shares the enforcement mindset of our online brand enforcement and domain disputes work on the IP side. The background sits in the Knowledge Base on the 72-hour breach countdown and data subject access requests, and the response itself is run through our Breach Response Workflow technology, with a lawyer approving every notification.
We run the breach response end to end: the assessment, the notification decision and drafting, liaison with the supervisory authority, and the enforcement or recovery action against the source of the breach where that is warranted.
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