How to Protect Your Customers' Confidential Info By Christopher Freeburn Customer data may well be your business's most critical asset. Unfortunately, there are plenty of thieves who would like to gain access to it. Identity and credit card theft are burgeoning problems. Customers' names, addresses, and credit information are valuable commodities that thieves not only steal, but actually trade among themselves. Today's profusion of computer technology and online connectivity has proven not...

You and your colleagues have invested untold amounts of time, energy and capital into your business. You want to protect it from potential threats - ranging from burglars to computer viruses to fire. By Reed Richardson Security is especially critical for small companies. Small firms have fewer resources than their larger competitors, so they tend to suffer disproportionately when security problems occur: For example, a negligible theft or computer virus at a big corporation might cripple a...