| Being secure as a business means protecting your | | | | new ways to do business that avoid potential |
| own funds, your information, your clients details and | | | | problems â such as potentially using PayPal as |
| your customers; and will help both your business and | | | | a payment intermediary, and encouraging all members |
| those you work with making it an important investment | | | | of staff to practice maintaining security in everything |
| in the long run. This means ensuring that your business | | | | they do. Private data should be stored and where |
| meets industry and company regulations which have | | | | necessary encrypted, and all documents containing |
| been put in place as a rough guideline, but it also | | | | such information should be destroyed rather than |
| means going beyond that to look at security issues | | | | simply discarded. Whenever a new system is |
| that are unique to your particular company and the | | | | integrated it should be examined from a security |
| way you do business and developing these as your | | | | perspective and questions should be asked as to how |
| company develops. This means install firewalls on | | | | it can be implemented in a safety conscious way and |
| computers and ensuring the security of POS (Point of | | | | how safety threats can be avoided. |
| Sale) systems and the like. But it also means finding | | | | |