What would happen if a rogue employee or a thief broke into your filing cabinets or your computer systems after you closed up shop for the night? If the person were looking to commit identity theft, he or she would probably have access to a lot of information: tax records, payroll information, financial data and customers’ credit card numbers. Now imagine what this could do to your trust factor among clients, suppliers and employees.
In an article in Promotional Products Business, Lesley Fair, an attorney in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, discusses how to increase your business security. A few inexpensive, common-sense preventative measures can save you a major headache down the road. Fair breaks down the most important security practices, and advises businesses to:
- Take stock of the personal information they’re storing
- Scale down on what they don’t need
- Protect the information they must keep
- Dispose properly of what they no longer need
- Establish a response plan for security breaches
Read the full article below for more on how to implement these practices in your salon.
Source:
Promotional Products Business: Data Sentry
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