During an ongoing analysis of security incident reports, you discover a pattern indicating a potential breach of sensitive customer data. What is the MOST appropriate initial step to ensure proper stakeholder engagement?
Inform the security team and senior management to coordinate the subsequent actions.
Engage external cybersecurity consultants to assist with the breach before informing any other parties.
Immediately send out a customer notification to inform them of the potential data breach.
Start deploying patches to potentially affected systems without waiting for further instructions.
When a potential breach of sensitive data is identified, the immediate step is to notify key stakeholders who are responsible for incident response and decision-making. This often includes members of the organization's security team, legal department, and senior management. Quick engagement with these stakeholders is crucial to ensure a coordinated response to the incident. Notifying customers or the media would typically occur later once the scope of the breach is understood and a communication strategy has been developed by senior management and PR/legal teams. Initiating a patch without proper evaluation or engaging consultants without notifying stakeholders may lead to miscommunication or insufficient response to the incident.
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