
teissTalk Guest Host Rene Millman was joined by Deborah Haworth, CISO, Penguin Random House; David Cartwright, Head of IT Security, Standard Bank International Client Solutions; and Chris Pace, Vice President, Product and Content Marketing, Immersive Labs
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The recent Tesco hack that was originally dubbed as “someone was trying to interfere with our systems” demonstrates how instrumental the comms team is to a successful incident response. In a couple of days after the incident updates to customers regarding their personal and card data, a public apology or reassuring messages were still missing from Tesco’s communications despite the sensitivity, criminal and marketing value of the type of data potential criminals could have put their hands on.
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