Internal Investigations Are Mission-Critical. Here Are Five Crucial Steps to Success
Jade Potot-Warren
2 September 2025
Discovery Services
Post-Data Breach Response
When a data breach occurs, every minute counts.
Why Choose Elevate for Post-Data Breach Response?
A Decade of Excellence – Elevate Again Ranked Band 1 (highest rating) by Chambers
More than 25% faster than traditional breach reviews, ensuring swift response and minimising downtime
Global review team of 500+ experienced lawyers and professionals available 24/7 to meet even the most demanding deadlines, with rapid scalability to handle surges in demand
Multilingual support, with lawyers fluent in over 20 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian languages
Extensive experience working with in-house legal departments and a deep understanding of law firm clients’ needs
Accurate
- Data mining using AI and search terms for precise results.
- Experienced lawyers and professionals adhering to standard operating procedures and playbooks to ensure reliable analysis and quality output.
- Enhanced Data Alteration algorithms to identify and fix typo errors and minimise false positives/negatives.
Rapid
- Privacy impact assessment within 72 hours to enable swift and effective breach notification and response.
- Permanent team of experienced post-data breach lawyers and the capacity to scale up a review team of 150+ people in less than 24 hours.
- High-speed processing and scalability to handle large data volumes.
Automated
- Detection of sensitive information (PII, PHI, CCPA, GDPR, PIPEDA, FERPA) without manual review.
- Processes optimised for accurate merging and deduplication of entities.
Adaptable
- Services tailored to meet specific customer needs and requirements.
- Specialised expertise in major industry sectors, including healthcare, finance, defence, technology, and many more.
- Customisable workflows and playbooks to meet applicable regulatory requirements.
Proven
- Successful engagements across ANZ, USA, UK, EU, and Singapore.
- Automated workflows, advanced analytics, proprietary algorithms, and GenAI to achieve effective breach response and remediation.
- Collaborative approach, working closely with customers and other stakeholders.
Compliant
- Conforms with requirements of major data privacy regulations and standards.
- Advanced analytics, proprietary algorithms, and GenAI to identify sensitive data and prioritise notifications.
- Continuous training and updates on the latest data privacy regulations.
Complete
- Identification and extraction of sensitive data, including credit card numbers, social security numbers, and much more, from unstructured and semi-structured sources.
- Numerous formats, including emails, documents, databases, and other data repositories.
- Combination of automation with expert reviewer confirmation to ensure comprehensive, deduped, and accurate notification lists.
Thorough
- Dynamic identification of critical search terms and patterns.
- Custom searches crafted to match specific project requirements.
- Integration with other advanced technologies, such as AI OCR and image recognition.
- Continuously updated to address emerging threats and new data types.
As market leaders in cyber incident response, we look to partner with recognised experts who can add real value to our offering and help us meet notification deadlines for our clients. We value Elevate’s ability to leverage specialist data breach technology, high degree of responsiveness, and experienced team.
Solution Brief
Post-Data Breach Response
Elevate delivers fast, thorough, cost-effective post-data breach response services that minimise legal, financial, and reputational risk using a combination of legal experts, AI-powered technology, and proprietary processes.
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