The Five Stages of Grief: Coping With a Data Breach

The Five Stages of Grief: Coping With a Data Breach

Have you been a victim of a data breach? You’re not alone.

The five stages of grief–denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance–were developed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in a book she published called On Death and Dying. Having guided many customers through data breach events to remediation, we’ve seen the “five stages of grief” model in action. Looking at this model with an infosec lens, we have outlined the five stages of incident response grief and how to work through them for a better outcome.

Read the full article by President and CTO Jim Broome on Security Boulevard.

   By: Bethany Kozal   08.11.23