Notifiable Data Breach Scheme: Mitigation Techniques and Organizational Responsibilities

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Introduction:
In this report the topic that will be discussed is of the data beach. The incident that
will be evaluated in the report is of the data breach that happen in the company named Page
Up which affected the Tasmania University. In this report the assessment will be made on the
data breach. The report will show the vulnerabilities of the data breach. The scheme of the
federal data Breach Notification (NDB). In this report assessment will be on the fact that how
the company can take some measurement to avoid these kind of data breach (Leonard and
Principal 2018). The responsibilities of the company will be discussed in the report on the
context of Federal Data Breach Notification scheme. In the further report the mitigation
techniques will be given according to the data breaches.
Notifiable Data Breach Scheme:
This is one kind of scheme that protects the data from getting breach, this act comes
under the privacy Act 1988 under Part3C. This enables the procedure that required after a
potential data breach. When a data breach occurs it affects the individuals and the
organizations because the data contains lots of confidential information about the companies
or about the human beings (Feary 2018). The notifiable data breach scheme helps the
company to get notified of the potential data breach. It states various aspects that how the
companies will be able to take care of the situation when a data breach occurs. It considers
the suspected data reach and then notify the users about the potential harm.
Data breach mainly happens when a data is manhandled by the unauthorized user and
use the data without the consent of the owner. There are several situation that is known to be
the eligible for data breach like when a device of that contains confidential information get
stolen or lost, when the confidential data base hacked, when the personal information is
accessed by the unauthorized user (Bird 2017).

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Importance of NDB scheme:
The Notifiable Data Breach (NDB) scheme is required it helps the individuals and the
companies to act properly after a data breach. This scheme helps the users for the protection
against the data breach. This scheme enables the transparency of the companies when they
require to respond to a data breach. The NDB provide support to the data of the companies
and it increases the information security of the industries in Australia. The NDB scheme also
provide required steps to decrease the portion of the damage due to the data breach (Brown
2017). So it is necessary for the every company to adapt the Notifiable data Breach Scheme.
Organizations Responsibilities:
The university must adapt the scheme of notifiable data breach. The scheme of the
NDB is mainly applied to the organization those are in need to protect the data from a data
breach and to get notified of the harm. The NDB covers several different area like the
government agencies of Australia, businesses, non-profit organisations, universities, health
care sectors, and the other major industries. The notifiable data breach notify the individuals
about the eligible data breaches (Subocz 2018). The company that will adapt the scheme will
be beneficial immensely as it covers the act of the privacy for the data. The NDB advices
several recommendations that whet is needed to be done in case of a data breach.
NDB covers a wide range of data breaches and then notify. The unauthorised access
to the personal data or stolen the data of other people without their permission is a data
breach that will be notified. Many industries affected by this like the University of Tasmania
because of the page up attack. The data breach have the potential to harm very seriously,
NDB identify the data breach that how much it will affect the organization. All kind of data
breaches are not notified as there are several exceptions are present in the case of the data
breaches. To protect the data the whole responsibility lies on the organization.