An Employee's Guide to Safeguarding Sensitive Information Properly: 12 Keys Every Employee Should Know

An Employee’s Guide to Safeguarding Sensitive Information Properly is a quick reference guide on the 12 keys employees should be aware of on how to safeguard sensitive information properly at the company they work for. Sean Lowther who designed and implemented the information security awareness program at Bank of America from 1999 to 2006 is the author this guide. Every person who works for a company should have a copy of this “Guide.” The guide includes the following 12 keys to safeguarding sensitive information properly:

Key 1: What is sensitive information
Key 2: Keep your work area clean of sensitive information
Key 3: Create a good password and do not share it with anyone!
Key 4: Use a password protected screen saver
Key 5: Remote computing
Key 6: Safeguard the transmission of sensitive information
Key 7: Destruction of sensitive information
Key 8: Social Engineering
Key 9: Insider threat
Key 10: Incident response
Key 11: Social Media
Key 12: eDiscovery

The “Guide” also includes key information on how individuals can protect their personal identity.

An Employees Guide to Safeguarding Sensitive Information Properly is an effective and reliable tool that will surely help reduce risk at any company and for any individual.