Protect Your Data – or Pay a Legal Cost
Yes, you read the post correctly. If you are a business professional of any kind you may think that keeping backups of your data is sufficient to protect you – but it’s not.
If you have sensitive information of any type belonging to your clients – or even information that could be matched with other information to become valuable to someone for a nefarious reason, then you must protect that data. Failure to do so could lead to legal consequences.
Unfortunately, in the current interconnected world it is becoming extremely easy to access data, even without physically having to be anywhere near the computer or systems holding the information.
For that reason you should not alone backup all your data, you should really encrypt any information you have so that others can’t access it for reasons other than that for which it was intended. Information held on password protected PC’s is not secure, such general password protection from your operating system (for most people some version of Windows) is notoriously unreliable and easy to circumvent by brute force methods or taking the disks out of the machines in which they are held. You need proper encryption software installed on your systems in order to secure the information on them.
If you have concerns about the data you are storing and how you should protect it then please feel free to call us in full confidentiality. We will be happy to offer you a free consultation and on-site evaluation.
