Four corporate investigation mistakes organizations make under pressure
BlackBerry security executive outlines four investigation mistakes, warning poor chain of custody has cost firms over $2 billion in SEC penalties.
In a Help Net Security video, BlackBerry VP and Chief Security Advisor Christine Gadsby explains how early decisions in corporate investigations—granting access, informal conversations and undocumented choices—damage chain of custody, privilege and regulatory outcomes. She cites more than $2 billion in SEC penalties across over 100 financial firms since 2021 tied to missing records. Her guidance includes naming an incident commander, using communication channels with audit trails, verifying participants, and documenting decisions in real time.
- Treat investigations as business events, not purely technical problems
- SEC penalties since 2021 exceed $2 billion across 100+ financial firms
- Recommendations: incident commander, auditable communications, verified participants, documented decisions
- Vendors
- BlackBerry
- Organizations
- SEC
From the original article
1 min read at helpnetsecurity.com
In this Help Net Security video, Christine Gadsby, VP and Chief Security Advisor at BlackBerry , explains why corporate investigations go wrong before the forensic team arrives. The first hours matter more than leaders assume. Access gets granted, conversations start, and decisions get made that later affect chain of custody, privilege, and how regulators judge the process.
By @helpnetsecurity · helpnetsecurity.com
A short excerpt; the article and its images belong to the publisher. Summary, key facts and assessment above are AI-written from the article and can be wrong.