Are You Engaging in Good Privacy Practices?

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Use this checklist to make sure YOUR organization is on top of its privacy practices:



• Verify services for privacy policies: if an organization does not have an explicit policy related to protecting your personal information, it is not a good sign about handling sensitive information. This same rule applies to apps you install on your devices.
• Think before you post: in social networks, forums, and chats, post only strictly needed information because search engines can correlate and aggregate random posts, messages, and profiles and get the information you don’t want them to have.
• Make use of anonymity: when you don’t have to identify your sensitive information, use credentials with no PII or solutions to navigate anonymously.
• Protect your device and communications: make sure to install and maintain firewall, cryptographic and anti-malware solutions on your device. The first one prevents your device from being hacked and from remote attacks, the second one helps protect your stored data and data in transit, and the last one can avoid the use of malware to track your browsing habits. To prevent direct access to them (in case they are stolen), make sure to set passcodes to access them every time you use them. And, finally, avoid at any costs making use of open Wi-Fi communication, and if you have to use it, do not send sensitive information.
• Use cryptographic solutions in the cloud: in this day and age, it is standard practice for cloud services to encrypt users’ data to prevent unauthorized access. Encrypt your sensitive documentation.