All lawyers having some managerial authority have to take some reasonable steps to protect their data that is being stored electronically. Data breach does not mean that just an ethical violation has taken place. Ethical violation takes place when the attorney does not undertake the right steps to prevent loss of data or has failed to detect the cyber crime and this has lead to data breach.

Once the data breach has taken place, a data breach lawyer California has to act both quickly and reasonably to interfere and prevent the data breach and minimize the damages. The business must have a response plan which is essential to address the problem in a coordinated way. They must be able to identify the breach, evaluate the scope, decide if the information has been accessed and compromised with, isolate the threats and stop exfiltration, and then restore the network of the company. It is recommended that the company must have a team along with an open source counsel that will be able to offer open-source legal advice. Post the data breach, the lawyer has to analyze the measures that must be taken to prevent any kind of recurrence.

It is advised that the team has to ensure a written policy is in place where the possible threats are mentioned, along with measures taken to avoid cybercrimes, the responsibilities of the employees, etc. In case data breach consists of materials that have confidential data of the clients, there has to be a notice which enables the client to determine what he/she needs to do, in case required. Lawyers must be in a position to train the employees of the organization on various cyber crimes and how they must tackle them.