Step-by-step plan for learning from data breaches

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It is important that organisations learn from previous data breaches and do not view maintaining the data breach register solely as an administrative obligation. With this sample step-by-step plan, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP), the Dutch data protection authority, helps organisations to learn from previous incidents.

The step-by-step plan enables organisations to monitor:

  • if (certain types of) data breaches are increasing;
  • what the possible cause of this is;
  • whether previously taken measures have worked to reduce the number of data breaches;
  • and if additional measures are needed.

Organisations can implement this step-by-step plan periodically as part of the plan-do-check-act cycle. This allows organisations to structurally evaluate and improve the protection of personal data.

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