Why Your Business Requires Security

The States and Federal Identity Theft and Privacy Protection Laws now require businesses, agencies and organizations of all sizes to protect all personal information they store, and report to all their customers whenever a breach occurs. The financial ramifications after having a data breach can be very substantial to both present and future business. In some many cases a company never does recover from a breach and is forced to close down. Currently, the average cost on a company is $3.7M per incident.

Archive for March, 2009

FACTA requires secure disposal of documents that contains a customer’s or employee’s personal information. Shredding is one of the easiest ways to start protecting your company from a violation. With so many different shredders and options on the market, Nancy Heaton of Fellowes will help explain how to match the shredder to your business environment.

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Mar
21

FTC – A Business Guide to Protecting Data

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) offers many training documents to help businesses understand how to protect themselves from identity theft and data breaches. Since they are also the main government arm that fines businesses after a data breach, it is great that they also helping to avoid their wrath.

Recently they produced an online video chocked full of basic information that hits on many of the same topics we at IDProtectionExpert.com discuss. Click the link below to view their training video and then come back and listen to what our different experts have to say on specific areas.

FTC – Protection Personal Information: A Business Guide

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Mar
14

Security Talk #5 – Shred, Shred, Shred

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Did you know that the Federal Trade Commision with their Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) requires that your company shred documents with personal information? valid-rss

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