Sunday, April 19 2009

Employee Training is CRITICAL

As a business owner, you would not hire a new employee and send them out to represent your business (whether on the floor, on the phone, or in the field) without training them on the proper procedures of your business, would you? So, why would any business give employees access to sensitive information the businesses is liable for protecting, without first providing the employee with the appropriate training on how to handle such sensitive information?Businesses, corporations and institutions across the US are discovering the biggest threat to sensitive information, in many cases, are the individuals entrusted to handling it and...

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Saturday, April 11 2009

May 1st Deadline

If you are unaware of the FTCs May 1st deadline, you have some last minute work to do. A little history:         With all the large scale Data Breaches over the last several years the FTC has increased the parameters on privacy law compliance. In January of 2008 the Red Flags Rule was approved for addition to the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act with a compliance date of November 1, 2008, for all businesses falling under the new guidelines. In October of 2008, the government decided to extend the compliance date under the realization that the majority of businesses...

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