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ARTICLE · 26 FEBRUARY 2025

Hot Tips For Data Privacy Day

To honor National Data Privacy Day on January 28, 2025, we have distilled dozens of possible action items into the most pressing cybersecurity/privacy "hot tips." Immediate action is recommended to help keep your data safe throughout the new year.

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To honor National Data Privacy Day on January 28, 2025, we have distilled dozens of possible action items into the most pressing cybersecurity/privacy "hot tips." Immediate action is recommended to help keep your data safe throughout the new year.

1. Prioritize Training on New Data Threats.

Novel approaches to individually targeted "spear phishing" enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) justify security-related outreach efforts to employees well above the longstanding once-a-year security training regime. The recent reality is that too many systems are being compromised by employee responses to threat actor social engineering, notably individual employees clicking on links in emails or texts from apparently reliable sources (internal firm leaders, health care, insurance or investment companies, state and federal agencies) that download malware or capture confidential data or individual financial information. As a priority matter, companies should implement

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