London-based commercial law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain L.L.P. has launched an integrated data breach response service for U.K.-based businesses.
ReSecure offers a combination of legal, information technology, public relations, incident response and remediation expertise for businesses dealing with a data breach, along with access to a multidisciplinary team of experts from RPC, digital forensic consultants Blackthorn Technologies Ltd., Internet and credit monitoring services provider Experian P.L.C. and crisis communications experts Mattison Public Relations, RPC said Monday in a statement.
“Data breaches are emerging as a huge problem for businesses, with reports of hackers attacking leading companies making headlines almost daily,” RPC partner Alex Hamer said in the statement. ReSecure “streamlines the process of dealing with a breach of security for a business, and is flexible in terms of scale and specialism, allowing businesses to deal with the problem as efficiently as possible.”
There were 368 data breaches so far this year throughout the United States, of which 46.5%, or 171, were in the health care/medical sector, says the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center, in a report issued Tuesday.