Would you leave documents containing your employees’ personal data lying around in a public place, or leave payment cards in plain sight when stepping out of the office? Certainly not. Yet even though we’re careful about protecting physical information, we still often underestimate the importance of securing digital data.
We tend to assume that if we’ve invested in antivirus software and our network has a firewall, we can safely say we’re properly protected against hacking attacks. But what about protecting the data collected and transmitted through websites?