Top 10 Ways You Can Help Prevent ID Theft
While consumer awareness is key, companies can also take important measures
July 01, 2005 — CSO —
- Don't ask for your customers' Social Security numbers (SSNs). And dont use your employees' SSNs as their ID numbers, time card numbers or passwords.
- Develop a crisis management plan to be used if sensitive data on employees or customers is lost or stolen.
- Pressure service providers, including insurance companies or retirement funds managers, to stop using employee SSNs as identifiers.
- Institute a clean-desk policy, especially in the HR department. Require password-activated screensavers.
- Conduct background checks on employees and new hires who have access to sensitive information.
- Store sensitive personal data in secure computer systems. Encrypt the data.
- Store physical documents in secure spaces such as locked file cabinets.
- Dispose of documents properly, including shredding paper with a cross-cut shredder, "wiping" electronic files, and destroying computer disks
and CDs. - Conduct regular staff training for new and existing employees, temporary employees and contractors.
- Conduct privacy "walk-throughs." Give rewards for best practices.
Source:Privacy Rights Clearing-house.
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