ACTION REQUESTED

NACHA has joined the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and its partners Symantec Corporation, Visa Inc., and Kroll’s Fraud Solutions in a national education initiative called Data Security—Made Simpler.

Data Security—Made Simpler was designed with the small business owner in mind. Please visit http://www.bbb.org/data-security/ and familiarize yourself with available materials. We encourage you to download these resources to incorporate them into your small business educational efforts. 

You may download and reproduce a PDF version of the Data Security Guide by visiting http://www.bbb.org/data-security/Data_Security_Made_Simpler.pdf.


BACKGROUND

BBB’s Data Security—Made Simpler provides small and medium business owners with the guidelines and right-size resources they need to build a data security plan and put it into action right away. BBB’s Data Security—Made Simpler includes turn-key guidance to help small business owners:

•    Identify their data loss vulnerability points – electronic and paper-based
•    Develop a data security policy that 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

For more information, visit http://www.bbb.org/data-security/.