If you work in eCommerce, you can see the storm on the horizon. Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year both online and off, is only a few days away. Your services are going to hit usage spikes you possibly have never seen before. And it will be all aspects of your services pushed to your limit – people won’t just be searching, or just buying, or signing up for programs, they’ll be doing all of these at once. ‍ Most crucially, everyone else is offering deals too.

When you think about making your service reliable, what standards and benchmarks are most important? The availability of services? Consistently fast responses? Accurate data? Prioritizing critical and common use cases? These are all important and deserve some focus, but today we’ll put the spotlight on an often overlooked pillar: security. ‍ Cybersecurity incidents can be the most devastating types of incident for your organization.

The Securities and Exchanges Commission published new rules for SEC registrants around disclosing incident details and response policies. Compliance with these new rules should be top of mind for any company – even if your org hasn’t hit the milestone of registering with the SEC, you should be prepared to be compliant when you take that step. ‍