Five ways small businesses risk customer data

It’s almost as if we expect big players to get hacked and our information to fall into the hands of cyber bad guys. There have been so many reports recently about breaches at big retailers and corporations like Target, it’s almost become blasé.
 
Bloomberg Businessweek reports that small businesses actually pose a bigger risk to our data, often because their lapse security practices practically invite hackers to poach from them. But it’s not only online business that is vulnerable.
 
This report outlines five common vulnerabilities shared by almost all small businesses and steps small-business owners can take to protect customer data. The No. 1 problem described in the report? Hard copy records.

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