The Good News
The good news: Barriers to improving data breach response can easily be solved.
While 83 percent of companies stated that conducting fire drills would make their response plans more effective, less than half of the respondents report practicing and auditing their plan on an annual basis. This could easily be resolved as difficulty scheduling is the cited as the top reason why companies don't practice their response plan.
Other relatively straight-forward steps for improving data breach response plans include ensuring contact information for all members of the data breach response team is provided and outlining procedures for communications with business partners if a breach occurs (61 percent currently don't include either of these considerations in their response plans).