Avalution and Immersion Release Data Breach White Paper

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Cleveland, OH – March 9, 2010 – Avalution Consulting and Immersion, Ltd. announced today the release of a joint white paper – Finding the Right Balance: Data Breach Prevention vs. Response, co-authored by Larissa K. Crum of Immersion Ltd., and Brian Zawada of Avalution Consulting.

No organization expects to have a breach; in fact, most organizations have gone to great lengths and spent tremendous amounts of money to prevent them from happening.  However, the number of reported data breaches in recent years has skyrocketed, and a strategy is needed to minimize the cost and reputational damage associated with a breach event when proper prevention techniques fail. This white paper discusses the importance of being able to quickly and efficiently respond to a breach, current and proposed federal regulations and state statutes that your organization must comply with in the event of a breach, and how to establish your organization’s data breach response plan and team.

Download Finding the Right Balance: Data Breach Prevention vs. Response Now

About Avalution
Avalution Consulting specializes in business continuity strategy design, development, implementation and long-term solution maintenance. Our team excels at implementing customized business continuity programs and enabling in-house personnel to execute and maintain continuity plans through effective knowledge transfer processes and compelling training concepts. Avalution is also recognized as a participant BSI Americas Associate Consultant Program (ACP).  As a certified firm, Avalution assists in preparing organizations for BS 25999 certification as well as assessing readiness for the certification process.

In addition, Avalution offers The Planning Portal (TPP), a completely customizable, web-based business continuity software that delivers an easy-to-use set of tools and processes to assist any organization, regardless of size, with developing and maintaining business continuity and disaster recovery-related information  – including analyses, plans, awareness content and exercise results.

www.avalution.com | www.theplanningportal.com | 800.941.0381

About InfoLaunch
Immersion, Ltd. is based in State College, PA in Penn State’s Innovation Park.  Immersion provides a comprehensive data breach notification service -InfoLaunch®.

InfoLaunch® offers its customers a package of pre-data breach readiness and post-breach printing, mailing and call center services.  InfoLaunch® provides businesses with valuable assistance in complying with both the existing 45 state data breach notification laws and the new HIPAA-protected health information breach notification requirements contained in the HITECH Act.  InfoLaunch® helps a company that has experienced a data breach, whether of personally identifiable information or of protected health information, to communicate its informative message quickly and effectively to its customers and employees who have had their personal and confidential information compromised in a data breach incident.  These incidents are happening with increasing frequency and scope.  Such carefully crafted written communication helps a business not only comply with state and federal legal notification requirements but also to protect the organization’s brand reputation and shareholder value from erosion due to the breach.

www.useinfolaunch.com | www.immersionltd.com | 866.377.8210