The National Institute of Standards Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce. They publish guidelines on how to implement technology and help you second-guess situations that can compromise your data. In their publication, NIST SP 1800-29, they give advice on how to detect, respond to, and recover from data breaches. It is a daunting task going thru all the documents, which is why the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.