Six Essential Steps For Data Security

Here's a holiday gift for anyone whose business depends on keeping customer or client data secure: the Frankfurt Kurnit Technology Group's list of six essential steps for data security.

Create an accurate, tailored privacy policy and stick to it. Why? Three reasons: 1) consumers expect credible businesses to have privacy policies, and they judge businesses based on those policies; 2) the FTC may cite you for withholding information from consumers about how their personally identifiable information is collected, stored and used; and 3) there are federal and state laws that require you to provide certain types of disclosures to consumers about privacy. Having a privacy policy that you are not following, or that is not specifically tailored to your company, is worse than having no policy at all.