Question

Perform an internet search and answer the following questions: Why should a business be concerned with preventing identity theft? What is a business legally required to do to protect the identies of employees and customers? How can a business keep private information secure? Discuss what you would do if your identity were stolen.

Answer 1

Why should a business concerned with preventing identity theft.

If our identity was there by some one then they may misuse our identity and make any illegal works

If the person who theft our identity make take a new contract like subscribing the cellular network and if that person make any illegal activities then we are get punished for that act due to the identity attached to the network is ours

So the companies concerned about the identity theft

What a business legally required to do to protect the identities of the employees and customers.

The data storing should be very secure in both the forms of physical and logical

If the data is stored in the soft copies i.e maintanance of the servers for storing the data then the bussiness organisation should use the strong firewall and protocols.

If the data is stored in physical manner the room in which all the data is kept should be secured with storing people and locks.

The usage of the data should be intimated to the customers and employees by time to time so that if any unauthorised usage can be detected.

What I would do if my identity was theft

Immediately inform to all the appropriate authorities by this we can make the usage of identity temporarily blocked

If the thief use our identity will get easily detected as soon as possible

If thief not detected the change all the numbers and barcodes of our identity.

How a bussiness can keep private information secure

Setting up the own servers

Never outsource the work of data maintenance to outside the organisation

Provide high end encryption to all the data so that the intruder cannot understand the information

Keep control on the persons who are accessing the data stored in the servers.

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