A security analyst is coordinating an incident response after logs show that customer PII may have been exfiltrated from a cloud-hosted database. Corporate counsel has asked for a written briefing before tomorrow's executive meeting. Which information should the analyst make sure to include in that initial communication to the legal team?
Complete packet captures and current firewall configuration files for counsel to validate technical findings
A narrative that summarizes who discovered the incident, what occurred, when it started, where it happened, and why it is significant
The full disaster-recovery and business-continuity runbook to show recovery procedures
Quarter-to-quarter revenue figures so counsel can gauge potential investor impact
Legal counsel needs an objective, factual summary so it can assess regulatory notification requirements and protect privilege. A succinct narrative covering who discovered the issue, what happened, when it began, where the affected systems reside, and why the incident matters provides that foundation. Detailed technical artefacts, financial metrics, or recovery runbooks can be supplied later but are not required in the first legal update.
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