Cyber Incident Response Guide
BOMA Canada is pleased to present the fourth guide in our knowledge series on cybersecurity for building owners and managers. We seek to provide valuable education and tools to our members, and with cybersecurity becoming a growing area of concern in commercial and residential buildings, this series is aimed at providing guidance on this critical subject.
The BOMA Canada 2019 Cyber Wellness Guide—the first guide in the series—introduced cybersecurity
threats and provided a starting point for buildings’cybersecurity planning. The following year, the BOMA
Canada Cybersecurity Guide – Procurement, delved into embedding cybersecurity practices and preventive measures into your procurement processes and procedures. The third guide took a deeper look into leveraging the role of supplier relationship management (SRM) in cybersecurity. With cybersecurity threats becoming more aggressive and sophisticated, it is likely that most organizations will be breached at some point despite planning and putting checks and balances in place. This fourth guide is aimed at helping you respond better if you face a breach.
How should this guide be used?
This guide is intended to introduce building managers and owners to the key elements of responding to
cybersecurity incidents in ways that help reduce its negative impacts and expedite your recovery should you have a breach. This guide is best used in conjunction with comprehensive cybersecurity planning, and follows our previous cybersecurity guides, so that readers can link dependent decisions about how they manage their response to a threat. While it is intended to help you respond better, it’s not a complete strategy or standard on its own, and needs to be supplemented with further reading and adherence
to specific standards, or the help of professionals, to respond effectively. Responding to a breach takes a
coordinated and organization-wide collaborative effort including your leadership, your information technology (IT) department and resources, your team members and external advisors.
We hope you find this guide useful and welcome your suggestions on future guides.
Sincerely,
Benjamin Shinewald
President & CEO
BOMA Canada
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