Protecting your customers with data privacy By Dimitri Shelest Companies go to great lengths to protect their top executives. Keeping them safe, healthy and happy so they can perform their duties without unnecessary distractions is critical for the productivity of the company. At one time, executive protection meant providing bodyguards and secure transit, and fortifying executive offices against external threats. As more executives work from home, efforts have extended to bolstering home defense systems. Still, there’s a missing element. In today’s digital world, it’s also necessary to protect executives online. That should include protecting their personal data. Executives have access to some of the company’s most sensitive information, and they’re increasingly being targeted by hackers looking to steal company secrets or to perpetrate cybercrimes. Personal data provides fuel for these crimes. Digital data warehouses store all kinds of details about all of us. It used to be just addresses, phone numbers, aliases and relatives. Now, it’s far more detailed information such as political affiliation, names of neighbors, resting heart rate, and even Amazon wish lists. All this data is collected legally by companies. Every time you interact with a computer – be that via a smart device, a bar code at checkout or on a website, data about you is being collected. In the U.S. there is essentially no limit to the amount of data companies can collect, and few limits on how they can use it. CYBER PATROL AN OVERLOOKED ELEMENT OF EXECUTIVE SAFETY 20 CHANNELVISION | JULY - AUGUST 2023
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