Summary
RMO No. 58-2019, issued December 9, 2019, prescribes the BIR Incident and Data Breach Response Plan, which protects Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of taxpayers, employees and other stakeholders.
Key points
- Guidance for BIR personnel. The plan guides all BIR officials and employees on responding to an incident or confirmed data breach involving PII.
- Scope. It sets out an organized approach to actual or potential threats to BIR assets and information kept electronically (computers, servers, networks) or physically in any other format.
- Contents of the plan. It specifies policies on incident and data breach preparation and identification or detection, the Incident/Data Breach Response Process Flow, and the composition and functions of the Incident and Data Breach Response Team.
Who is affected
- BIR officials and employees
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