Sample Incident Response Playbook for a Multi-Jurisdictional Data Breach

For handling breaches with large-scale exposure, global compliance deadlines, and intense public scrutiny

When a major data breach occurs, most organizations fall back on static tools: manual playbooks, shared drives, spreadsheets, email chains, and Slack threads. These are good tools, but they fail at the moment it matters most because incident response doesn’t fail due to a lack of tools. They fail due to the chaos.

Deadlines overlap. Jurisdictions conflict. Teams operate in parallel without shared visibility. Critical decisions are made verbally and never captured. And leadership is forced to manage risk without a clear operational picture.

What you’ll get when you download

This playbook is a sample document output of the BreachRx Cyber Incident Response Management (CIRM) platform, modeled on a large-scale, multi-jurisdictional breach, similar to SoundCloud’s. If you’ve ever wondered “How would we actually run this?” during a large breach, this playbook lays out what it would look like:

• A role-based, phase-driven breach response playbook
• Clear timelines from Hour 0 through post-incident remediation
• Realistic regulatory and notification workflows
• A concrete example of how CIRM works in practice

Download the Sample Incident Response Playbook and see how BreachRx turns incident response from chaos into control.