Survey: firms look to counsel, IT to handle data breaches.

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Which internal players do companies rely on to handle compliance and data breach issues? According to a recent survey, the general counsel and IT staffs win.

The survey, from insurance analytics company Advisen and insurer Zurich North America, asked more than 300 risk management professionals which department in their organization is responsible for ensuring compliance with all privacy laws, including data breach notification laws..

Respondents said they look to the office of the general counsel (24%) and IT (23%), followed by the chief privacy officer/chief information security officer (17%).

Interestingly, in the 2015 version of the same survey, Advisen and Zurich asked the same question and found that IT was the top response, garnering 31% of the...

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