National Identity Fraud Prevention Week

This week is National Identity Fraud Prevention Week so with luck you will see items in the press about what you can do. The short answer is simple - guard sensitive and confidential information as if it were your own.

Remember, all information is of value to someone, so look after it and when you have finished with it, dispose of it properly. Shred old documentation, erase old disk drives, encrypt sensitive information that is leaving company premises (whether it is on a laptop, CD ROM or backup tape.)

Perhaps the best thing you can do is to get the CEO or Managing director to send an email out to everyone - reminding them about the risks and consequences of losing data. We shouldn’t need a week to remind us of the problems that data loss can create - this is something we need to think about everyday.

October 6, 2008 | Filed Under security 

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