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The security of customer and employee data should be a top priority for businesses today.
Unfortunately, most businesses are not taking the necessary steps to protect their
personally identifiable information (social security numbers, driver’s license
or state-issued identification card numbers, financial account information, etc.) because
they are not aware that this data is at risk.
To avoid the loss or theft of personally identifiable information (PI), your company needs to
be careful in the methods that it uses to send files that contain sensitive data to customers
and business partners. If you currently use unencrypted email attachments or FTP to send files containing
PI to your customers, you are making a huge mistake. This mistake can lead your company to
fines, lawsuits, and a compromised reputation.
Similarly, if your customers and business partners are using email or FTP to send files
that contain PI to you, you are allowing yourself to be put at risk with those files as well.
Storing PI files on multiple laptops, desktops, and servers is risky also. Who has access to all
those files on all those machines? Do you really know? To counteract this risk, your business
should provide secure, controlled, and auditable access to all files that contain PI.
By providing controlled access, you are protecting your business and you are complying
with Federal and/or State information protection regulations as well.
How can your business protect its PI? For the last 8 years,
Noonmark Technology's software solutions have been helping companies like yours to meet
this challenge.
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To determine whether your company is adequately protecting its PI, please take a look
at the questions in the Security Checklist.
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To learn about companies that did not protect their PI and had data breaches as a result,
please see our Data Breaches page.
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To learn about the tough new Massachusetts Protection of Personal Information Regulation,
please see our
MA Regulation page.
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To learn about how you can protect your PI, please see our
Secure File Transfer System overview page.
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