For small businesses it is critical to secure sensitive customer data. In fact, there’s new legislation that may mean that they will be held to the same legal standards as big companies, including fines! Luckily, there are some easy small steps you can take to secure customer data.
- Know what data you actually have! This is an essential first step that Save Friday’s digital maturity overview can help you with.
- Use encryption protocols to ensure that all of your customer data is encoded. In our digital plan for your businesses, Save Friday will recommend suppliers that you can use to do this. Because while encryption sounds scary, we promise, it’s actually easy.
- Use strong passwords and multi-factor authentication to add an extra layer of protection.
- Limit access to customer data to only essential employees and make sure that you regularly review permissions so that staff who no longer need access don’t have it.
- Make sure that all of your software is kept up to date.
- Educate employees on the importance of handling customer data responsibly with training and clear protocols.
Save Friday goes through all of these steps and more in detail in our Digital Maturity Overview to make sure that you understand your risk areas and are confident in managing them.
