What to Do When (Not If) Your Small Business Has a Data Breach
The first 24 hours after a breach decide what the next 24 months look like. The plan runs hour by hour: contain without destroying evidence, work out what was actually taken, call your insurer and a lawyer before anyone else, and hit the notification deadlines most owners miss.
Write the one-page breach plan this week: who calls the bank, who can pull your backups, your attorney's number, where your customer data actually lives. Tape it inside a cabinet.