Extract from Beagle’s article “From Chaos to Clarity: How Beagle’s Person First Approach Transforms Data Breach Response”
The Reality Check Every Legal Team Needs
If you’ve ever been on the front lines of a data breach, you know the feeling. That hollow pit in your stomach when you realize millions of records have been compromised. Behind every exposed Social Security number, medical record, or financial statement is a real person who must be identified, contacted, and protected and all while the regulatory clock ticks mercilessly.
“How many people were affected? What exactly was exposed? Which regulations apply? When must notifications go out?”
These aren’t abstract questions, they are the everyday pressures faced by privacy officers, in-house counsel, and breach response teams trying to bring order to chaos.
The Hidden Challenges of Modern Breach Response
The statistics from the 2024 IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report are sobering. The global average cost of a data breach jumped to $4.88 million in 2024, a 10% spike and the highest increase since the pandemic.
