Run breach response on a clock, with the 72-hour deadline built in
The clock starts before your handling history exists
When a breach lands, the clock starts. GDPR gives you 72 hours from awareness to notify the supervisory authority — plus a separate obligation to communicate to affected data subjects without undue delay. NIS2 and DORA layer their own early-warning and reporting timelines on top.
The failure mode is rarely the breach itself. It's the scramble: incident details scattered across email threads, no agreed lifecycle, no record of who decided what or when.
When the authority asks for your handling history, you reconstruct it after the fact. That reconstruction is the risk — late or undocumented notification turns a contained incident into a compliance finding.
What you can do with Incident & Breach Management
- Capture incident and reporting dates with validation, so the timeline is unambiguous from the first entry.
- Auto-calculate the reporting date against the 72-hour window the moment awareness is logged.
- Drive each breach through a defined lifecycle — processing, documenting, reporting, mitigating, learning, resolved.
- Trigger GDPR notification workflows with built-in approvals and email, not ad hoc messages.
- Link each incident to risk assessments, tasks, documents, and audit logs in one breach record.
- Bulk import and export incidents with status mapping for migration and reporting.
What it delivers to your program
- No missed deadlines — the 72-hour clock is calculated for you, not tracked by hand.
- One defensible breach record — incident data, decisions, and evidence live in a single place, not across inboxes.
- Faster authority notification — approvals route through a workflow instead of waiting on a chased email.
- An audit trail you can hand over — every status change and action timestamped, ready when the regulator asks.
Built for compliance
These obligations apply to personal data breaches; map them to your own regulatory scope before relying on any single reference.
| What DPMS does | Maps to | How |
|---|---|---|
| Calculates the notification deadline from awareness | GDPR Art. 33(1) | Auto-derived reporting date against the 72-hour window |
| Documents the facts, effects, and remedial action of a breach | GDPR Art. 33(5) | Field-level capture across a defined breach lifecycle |
| Routes incident notification through approval | NIS2 Art. 23 | Configurable workflow with approvals and email |
| Evidences incident handling end to end | DORA Art. 19 | Timestamped activity log linked to tasks and documents |
Why Priverion
Unlike general-purpose GRC tools where incident tracking is a bolt-on, breach management here lives inside one unified privacy and InfoSec platform. An incident links directly to the risk assessments, tasks, documents, and audit logs it touches — no re-keying, no orphaned spreadsheet. The reporting-date calculation and approval-driven notification are part of the same record, so your deadline tracking and your evidence trail are never two separate exercises.
Questions DPOs and CISOs ask before a demo
Does it actually track the 72-hour GDPR deadline?
Can we configure our own breach lifecycle?
How does authority notification work?
Can we migrate existing incidents in, or get our data out?
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