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Cyber-Attack and Data Breach Offering

Crisis Communications firm CommCore helps organizations prepare for the Public Relations and Reputation Management impacts of cyber-attacks. We work with Legal, IT, HR and forensic teams to implement cyber incident and breach communications to key stakeholders.

The latest data* reveals:

  • Over 156,000,000 “data exposures” yearly in the U.S.
  • Average total cost of a data breach is $3.86 million and moving in an upward trend (IBM)
  • On average, there is a cyberattack every 39 seconds

Are your cyber-attack communications ready?

  • Are you able to communicate effectively with stakeholders in the “Golden Hour” after you discover your data, assets, or business operations have been compromised?
  • Do you have an updated plan to immediately inform customers, investors, employees, boards of directors, law enforcement, regulators and the media?
  • Do your C-Suite, breach coach, and legal counsel collaborate to ensure that executive communications don’t harm your legal and financial positions?
  • Do you have a plan in place to repair and restore your brand reputation?

 CommCore offers proactive and reactive Crisis Communications for Reputation Management and Public Relations for financial, healthcare, government and many other fields.

 Our reputation risk and cyber-attack/data breach client’s assignments include:

  • Ransomware attack
  • Phishing incident that including PHI information
  • Simulation for malware attack
  • Crisis planning for organization that expects state actor penetration attempts

Cyber-Attack/Data Breach Services:

  • Audit/Draft a Cyber Crisis Communications Plan
  • Simulations and Drills to build teamwork and speed up Communications Response Time
  • Crisis Communications Training, On-Call Counsel, and Response Implementation
  • Legal and Regulatory Testimony Prep
  • Reputation Management

CommCore is led by Andy Gilman, who provided crisis counsel to Johnson & Johnson during the Tylenol poisonings and has equal credentials in the cyber arena.

 

*Sources- Statista- Annual number of data breaches and exposed records in the United States from 2005 to 2020
Varonis- 98 Must-Know Data Breach Statistics for 2021
https://www.varonis.com/blog/data-breach-statistics/

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