Confirmed | December 16, 2015
Why do bad data breaches happen to good companies? We like to think that our business practices are safe and ethical, but time and time again headlines inform the public of big data breaches in the hospitality industry. Just earlier this year, 7 Trump Hotels were exposed for a data breach and every single one of their customers cards were potentially at risk.
Besides stolen documents, hackers are still the #1 source of data breaches, so in this digital age it’s important to take the steps needed to secure your customers data. Check out the following suggestions to help your company avoid a major data breach:
- Problem: Storing sensitive credit card information on paper. It is too easy to steal, even if it is locked and hidden, those with knowledge of its whereabouts may allow it to get into the wrong hands.
- Solution: Use a digital system to store credit card information. Confirmed encrypts and safely stores all credit card information that customers send via a digital authorization form.
- Problem: 76% of network intrusions involve weak credentials, such as obvious or easily accessed passwords.
- Solution: Don’t use known words to create a password. Use a combination of capital and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters such as ! @ & *.
- Problem: Hackers that use backdoors to access data within company software. Some hackers are able to break into the actual code database of certain software to access sensitive information.
- Solution: Use a system that encrypts data and makes it inaccessible to a backdoor hacker. Many software programs encrypt the sensitive data so that it cannot be accessed by the backend user. This helps to prevent your company data from being breached as well as the information being sent by your customers.
