Kroll Fraud Solutions Blog – A Dialogue on Data Security

This week, we’ll be offering up a few tips intended to help you keep your data secure while managing those beginning-of-year housekeeping issues that most organizations face.

It’s unavoidable that sensitive data is set in motion with much greater frequency at this time of year than others – and much of it is actually your employees’ data. Most likely, your organization implemented an open benefits enrollment at the end of last year, and new benefits are coming online for the first time. This can be a particularly treacherous time period as well. Consider these tips:

The Endpoint Security blog recently reviewed the actions of a Hollywood Video store that went out of business and subsequently threw old membership forms in the dumpster. The blogger inevitably asks the question: who is to blame here?

The answer, as is usually the case, is complicated. As it turns out, disposal is the Bermuda Triangle of data privacy. Whereas an organization, while solvent, is responsible for protecting its customers’ information, the picture becomes somewhat muddy if the company folds. Unless the data breach occurs before the company is completely dismantled, it’s difficult to pinpoint anyone left to be held accountable for fines or notifications. Further, the organizational assets, like desktop computers, are often sold off to the highest bidder. It’s alarming to think how much hardware may get shuffled about, still containing the records it held at the time the company went out of business, because no one wants the added expense of erasing the data.