The State of Incident Response 2021 surveyed 400 information security and 100 legal and compliance leaders from companies with over $500M in annual revenue, identifying a lack of clarity from information security professionals about when and how to engage legal as part of an incident response. The survey also identified challenges with digital evidence preservation, breach notification readiness, a proper communication process.

We surveyed 400 information security and 100 legal and compliance leaders from companies with over $500M in annual revenue and more than half reported increased cybersecurity budgets for next year and that their executive leadership is more aware of cyber threats. However, over 40% report internal obstacles with the adoption of security processes, lack of organization-wide support, and a "bare minimum" approach to security.