Top Tips to Make Sure Your Company's Information is Secure
(firmenpresse) - LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- (Marketwire) -- 10/14/11 -- With the volume of digital data received by an average business growing by 200 per cent per year, it is becoming increasingly difficult for businesses to operate an effective .
On top of this, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is becoming increasingly strict with organisations not taking appropriate measures to protect their data, issuing significant fines to organisations in breach of the Data Protection Act 1998.
It's time for businesses to take a hard look at their policy. So what steps does your business need to take?
1. Perform a review of the kind of information you receive and generate in order to map its lifecycle, from creation to destruction. This will enable you to identify any weaknesses in the system.
2. Check for duplicates. For example, companies may have information on laptops that also exists on a network drive or in a backup repository used by the PC. You should consider who is accountable for all this information.
3. Don't forget digital data. A sound records management procedure, including , data entry, cataloguing, tracking, and retrieval and indexing systems, will ensure that sensitive digital data remains safe.
4. Once physical or digital information has become obsolete it must be appropriately destroyed. Third party suppliers can provide secure and a certificate of destruction, for full chain of custody.
5. Organise training. Data protection is as much about a culture of awareness among staff as it is about corporate policies. To truly protect the organisation's critical data from malicious threats and to meet the ICO's guidelines, a continuous focus on culture, practice and control is essential.
Information is a key asset for any organisation. If not managed or destroyed securely, sensitive data can be lost through cyber attacks, theft or carelessness. Failure to understand the risks can have serious consequences for an organisation's reputation or even existence.
About Iron Mountain:
Iron Mountain provides information management services that help organisations lower the costs, risks and inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The Company's solutions enable customers to protect and better use their information-regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage-so they can optimise their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of information assets, including business records, electronic files, medical data, emails and more for organisations around the world. Visit for more information.
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