Happy Data Privacy Day – What Are You Doing To Keep Your Data Secure?

Data Privacy Day is celebrated on January 28 each year to raise awareness about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data and enabling trust. In honor of Data Privacy Day, now is an ideal time to review your company's privacy hygiene. Just like a regular visit to your doctor or dentist, privacy hygiene requires a periodic check-up.

Here are five quick but important tips you can use to minimize your risk:

• Conduct a security assessment. You can't have privacy without security. Have you checked that your patch management process is working? Are you using multifactor authentication? When is the last time you took an inventory assessment? While every business should develop, implement and maintain reasonable safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of personal information, how those goals are accomplished depends on the type(s) of personally identifiable information it is collecting, how it is using the information and what is