From the course: Building an Effective Cybersecurity Program for Your Startup
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Securing data
From the course: Building an Effective Cybersecurity Program for Your Startup
Securing data
- [Instructor] Securing the data you both create and collect is a fundamental aspect of your startup cybersecurity program. Your data has tremendous value to the business. Everything from your customer information to your intellectual property is going to be captured and stored as data. And protecting your data enables your startup to grow while maintaining the trust you've earned from your customers. One of the most effective, yet counterintuitive data security controls is to limit the amount of data you collect and share. Collecting unnecessary customer data opens you up to increased costs when it comes to recovering from a data breach. Not that long ago, a company who will remain nameless, reported a very public, very ugly data breach. The stolen data included personally identifiable information that the company had no need to collect. The end result was a $250,000 fine from the US Federal Trade Commission in…
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