IRS Security Summit Series for Tax Professionals: Create a Data Theft Recovery Plan

Original release date: August 14, 2019

The fifth and final step in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Security Summit series for tax professionals is creating a data theft recovery plan. IRS issued a news release highlighting the importance of understanding the risks posed by national and international cybersecurity criminal syndicates, working with cybersecurity experts to help prevent and stop data theft, and reporting data theft as soon as possible. Creating a data theft recovery plan is part of the Taxes. Security. Together. Checklist, which IRS created to help tax professionals protect sensitive taxpayer data.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages tax professionals to review the IRS news release and the following Security Summit series topics for more information:

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