VISA and BBB Launch Data Security Guide for Small Businesses

Visa and the Better Business Bureau just launched “a national education initiative to help small businesses address data security and prevent data breaches. The result of this collaboration is a booklet titled "Data Security - Made Simpler", a turn-key guide for small businesses to build a data security plan and steps how on to implement it right away.”

The Better Business Bureau also launched a microsite with small businesses in mind.  You'll find useful information related to PCI Compliance, Securing Sensitive Data and more. Data Security Guide for Small Businesses, where you can also find the guide.

The booklet is specifically designed to help small businesses:

• Identify their data loss vulnerability points – electronic and paper-based
• Develop a data security policy that both protects sensitive data, ensures its availability and restricts access
• Identify and deploy the right kind of tools to protect sensitive data, based on their type of business
• Communicate their data protection policies to customers as a strategy to strengthen the business - customer trust relationship and differentiate their company from their competitors
• Know what do to if they believe they’ve been a victim of a data compromise