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Mandatory data breach reporting starts for small business

Just read this article entitled Mandatory data breach reporting starts for small business and I want to make sure that users who come across this blog are aware of the new changes. One of the things that it says that is of importance deals with fines after a breach if notification is not made. One number that comes out is 360,000 and the other is 1.8 million dollars respectively.

Don’t get caught in this. I try to make sure people have their information protected the best I can. I’m based in the United States, and we don’t have a say so when our information gets taken. I think this should be something adopted no matter where you live, as it can be something we can all learn from what Australia is doing.

Here is a portion that might be of use from this article:

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“Severe consequences

Small businesses have been warned the consequences of a data breach can be severe; from financial to brand and reputational damage, Paul Gracey, director
of printing systems for HP South Pacific says.

“Security threats are evolving every day. Due to reduced effectiveness of firewall protection, every device on an organisation’s network is at risk, and
unfortunately printing and imaging devices are overlooked and left exposed.”

Security blind spots threaten to unhinge small business owners, such as visual hacking (where confidential data is read directly from a device’s screen
without permission), he says.

Over half of the respondents flagged ‘‘employee carelessness’’ as a significant security threat to their business, with concerns not just over the behaviour
of staff when outside the office, but external threats such as visual hacking, Gracey says.

“Think about the number of times you’ve opened your work laptop on the train or bus, only to catch someone looking over your shoulder.”

Visual hacking is a problem for small business. figure
Visual hacking is a problem for small business.
Visual hacking is a problem for small business. figure end

The not-so-humble printer is increasingly becoming the entry point of choice for hackers, and as SMBs remain focused on security software, hackers are
looking to printers as the easy way into a business.

Gracey explains that smart printers can retain sensitive information and are often excluded from risk assessments. “Small businesses need to ask what data
they have, where it’s kept and where it is being used,” he says.”

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If nothing else, we know no matter the business, nobody is prepared. Lets have a discussion on what we can do to start the process of doing the best we can, even though a lot of it is out of out of our hands.

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Mandatory data breach reporting starts for small business was released on February 26, 2018 at 5:56 pm by tech in article commentary.
Last modified: February 26, 2018.

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