incident response

Information Security Team: Your task force for securing information and responding to incidents

A group can achieve a goal faster and more effectively than one person working alone. Information security law compliance is difficult and requires an information security team of people to do it properly. Your team should include people from [...]

SARB Cybersecurity and Cyber-Resilience Directive

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has issued a Cybersecurity and Cyber-Resilience Directive focused on strengthening cybersecurity and cyber-resilience within the National Payment System. Since the financial sector plays a vital role in our economy, SARB expects all payment institutions [...]

By |2025-05-29T21:12:47+02:00May 29th, 2025|Categories: Cybersecurity Law|Tags: |

Webinar | Reporting data breaches in South Africa through the portal

Data breaches happen to all organisations sooner or later. You cannot always prevent them, but you can prepare to respond quickly, efficiently and comprehensively. This webinar will demonstrate how to report a data breach in South Africa using the Information [...]

By |2026-10-01T10:40:28+02:00May 26th, 2025|Categories: , |Tags: , , , |

Data subject breach notification

Imagine a castle under siege, and the guards fail to alert the inhabitants. In the world of data protection, data subject breach notifications act as crucial alarms, ensuring individuals are aware of threats to their personal data. Data protection laws, [...]

Data breach legal strategies

Dealing with a data breach is like trying to turn off a complex alarm system, where cutting the wrong wire can make things worse instead of quieting the alarm. Breaches include leaks, hacks and other information security compromises. As we [...]

Webinar | Responding to incidents

Data breaches, hacks and leaks happen to all organisations sooner or later – because if you have gold in your house, someone will try to break in. You can’t always prevent them, but you can prepare to reply to them [...]

By |2026-10-01T10:49:35+02:00February 5th, 2024|Categories: , |Tags: , , |

AI incident management

AI incident management is rapidly gaining importance due to the unique challenges that AI systems present. Traditional incident response methods might fall short in addressing these peculiarities. This article will explore why AI-specific approaches are necessary and how to develop [...]

By |2024-02-28T22:14:07+02:00September 14th, 2023|Categories: AI Governance|Tags: |

AI incident response: it’s not as simple as you think

Most organisations implement AI without considering incident response, leaving them poorly prepared when AI failures and attacks occur. In this post, we explore the reasons behind this and provide you with actionable insights based on lessons learned from developing AI [...]

By |2026-10-01T10:34:56+02:00June 23rd, 2023|Categories: AI Governance|Tags: , , |

Incident response training through roleplay

Picture this: You're in a dimly lit room, a mysterious figure lies dead on the floor, and you've got a room full of suspects. The culprit? A data breach, insider threat, or even a malicious malware attack. No, this isn't [...]

Webinar | Conducting internal investigations

Many organisations conduct internal investigations for various purposes, such as responding to workplace incidents or conducting background checks on candidates. You investigate the incident to protect your organisation’s interests or to protect the interests of your stakeholders or third parties. [...]

By |2026-08-27T10:46:01+02:00September 28th, 2022|Categories: |Tags: , |

Data breach notification: What we can learn from the Information Regulators response

Data breach notification is both good business and required by law. What can we learn from the Regulator’s media statement on the Experian breach? Not if but when Commentators on cybersecurity warn “…it is not a question of if [...]