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The Federal Trade Commission will host a one day-conference in Chicago at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law on June 15, 2016. This event will be the fourth of the FTC’s Start with Security Events nationwide, which build on its publication of the same title Start with Security: A Guide for Business, released last June.
The upcoming event will be targeted specifically at start-ups and other small and medium-sized businesses, and will focus on how these organizations can better secure their products, services, and networks. The name sums it up pretty well.
In Start with Security, the FTC reiterates its long-standing view that data security should be a top priority for any organization, even those in start-up mode. This written guidance, along with short videos posted on the FTC’s website, is based on more than 50 of the FTC’s data security settlements and consent decrees synthesized into 10 lessons which the FTC says should apply to businesses of all sizes and in all sectors.
Read the complete article at FTC: Data Security Primer for Small Businesses and Start-ups