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You're juggling multiple security breaches. How can you prioritize conflicting priorities effectively?

When faced with simultaneous security breaches, it's vital to quickly assess risks and impacts. To tackle this head-on:

- **Evaluate the severity** of each breach to determine which poses the greatest immediate threat.

- **Allocate resources wisely**, focusing on breaches that could cause the most damage if left unaddressed.

- **Communicate clearly** with your team about the plan of action for each breach to ensure coordinated efforts.

What strategies do you find most effective when handling multiple security issues?

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You're juggling multiple security breaches. How can you prioritize conflicting priorities effectively?

When faced with simultaneous security breaches, it's vital to quickly assess risks and impacts. To tackle this head-on:

- **Evaluate the severity** of each breach to determine which poses the greatest immediate threat.

- **Allocate resources wisely**, focusing on breaches that could cause the most damage if left unaddressed.

- **Communicate clearly** with your team about the plan of action for each breach to ensure coordinated efforts.

What strategies do you find most effective when handling multiple security issues?

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    Alexia Wong

    Tuition teacher. Earned Community Top Voice Badge in Teaching in '23 and Community Top Voice Badge in Cybersecurity in '24.

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    To prioritize conflicting priorities effectively, you need to first make sure that you assess the severity of the breach. This is so that you would know how it would affect your organization. You need to then assess which assets have been compromised. This is so that you would know which one has been affected the most and needs to be protected. You must make sure that you set clear guidelines about which types of assets to prioritize. This is so that you would know which ones needs to be prioritized when a breach occurs.

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    Mark Stites

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    Proper preparedness prevents poor performance... 1. Know the classification of various data under attack. 2. Know your access boundaries and controls. 3. Know which parts of the system keeps the business alive. 4. Know which person is the goto for the access controls. Then execute in this order: 1. Highest data classification targets 2. Highest business operations threats 3. Shortest public disclosure requirements

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    Stefan Mihai

    Enterprise Architect | MBA(c)

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    1. Triage based on impact and urgency deal with the high impact and high urgency first. 2. If possible automate the fix for the low risk and low urgency specter. 3. Establish a team with clear roles and responsibilities to avoid confusion and streamline decision making. 4. Determine if the attack is part of a larger coordinated attack or just an isolated incident. 5. Focus on short term containment of the breaches then on once the threat is mitigated do a post-incident review and audit. 6. Keep close contact with L1 to if the incident is ongoing. 7. Work on creating a clear incident playbook if future issues appear.

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    Siddiqui Aasem

    Serving Notice period | Immediate joiner | Security Analyst @ Infosys | Vulnerability Management, IT Security

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    1.Assess Impact – Prioritize breaches causing the most damage (e.g., financial loss, data exposure). 2.Evaluate Urgency – Address actively spreading or high-risk threats first. 3.Align with Business Priorities – Protect critical assets and sensitive data. 4.Address Dependencies – Fix issues affecting key systems needed for other responses. 5.Communicate Clearly – Keep stakeholders informed to ensure coordinated efforts.

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    Shorabh Karir

    KPMG| CVE-2025-42998 | Ex-NCIIPC | Ex-CERT-In | ICS , IoT ,IIoT Security Researcher |Security + | ECIH |CEH | CHFI

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    When handling multiple security breaches, prioritize based on criticality and impact: 1. Human Safety First – If lives are at risk (e.g., healthcare, ICS/SCADA compromise), act immediately. 2. Assess Severity – Identify breaches affecting critical infrastructure or financial loss. 3. Rapid Containment – Patch vulnerabilities, isolate compromised systems, and block threats. 4. Allocate Resources – Focus response teams on high-risk incidents first.

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    Abdoulaye Baldé

    Chef de projet sécurité informatique

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    Quand plusieurs failles débarquent en même temps, pas de panique, on joue la carte de la sévérité ! On neutralise d’abord celles qui peuvent tout faire exploser, on alloue les ressources là où ça fait le plus mal et on garde une comm’ fluide pour éviter le chaos.

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    Ananda Mule

    Cloud Security Engineer 💻 | Zscaler | ZIA | ZPA | Paloalto | F5 - BigIP | Cyber Security Enthusiastic

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    In order to solve security breaches 1. prioritized breaches as per the severity level. 2. Isolating and assigning right resources to them. 3. as per the severity level, analyzing the problem, understanding impact of it, and try to minimize it at the same time solving it with most optimized solution with the help of experts. 4. allocating incident response team and assigning task as per severity level to them to ensure business continuity. 5. using common medium of communication between team who are allocated to solve the breaches to ensure streamline communication.

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    Ivan Leonardo Anguiano Contreras

    Gerente de Tecnologias de la información

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    La efectividad en la priorización depende de un enfoque basado en riesgos, impacto y rapidez de respuesta, con el apoyo de herramientas de automatización y análisis forense, como ejemplo esto la puede determinar un Pentesting y comenzar a actuar segun el reporte de hallazgos.

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