How do you store sensitive personal data?
Sensitive personal data should be held separately from other personal data, preferably in a locked drawer or filing cabinet. As with personal data generally, it should only be kept on laptops or portable devices if the file has been encrypted and/or pseudonymised.
How do you keep your sensitive data secure?
How to keep your company’s sensitive data secure
- Educate employees on best network security practices.
- Create a BYOD policy.
- Create a robust policy for handling sensitive data.
- Encrypt your data for protection.
- Focus on password security.
- Be aware to prevent data breach.
- Introduce identity and access management (IAM)
What are the requirements of highly confidential data storage?
Password protect all confidential data, and accounts with access to confidential data. Do not share passwords, and do not write passwords down. Do not store unencrypted confidential information on PDA, laptop computer/desktop computer’s hard drive, USB drive, CD, flash memory card, floppy drive, or other storage media.
What counts as sensitive personal data?
The following personal data is considered ‘sensitive’ and is subject to specific processing conditions: personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs; health-related data; data concerning a person’s sex life or sexual orientation.
How can access to sensitive information be controlled?
Use authentication to verify the person accessing the data, and create audit logs that can be scanned for suspicious behavior. Restricting data access strictly to what’s required for each job role is essential if you want to prevent a sensitive data breach.
How does the Privacy Act protect personal information?
The Privacy Act generally affords a higher level of privacy protection to sensitive information than to other personal information. Whether information constitutes personal information under the Privacy Act will depend on whether an individual can be identified or is ‘reasonably identifiable’ in the particular circumstances.
When do you need to collect sensitive information?
The requirements that apply to the collection of sensitive information are even higher. Unless an exception applies, you may only collect sensitive information where it is both reasonably necessary for, or directly related to, your agency’s functions or activities, and the individual concerned consents to your collection. There are some exceptions.
How to manage sensitive data in a company?
From an administrative point of view, managing sensitive data requires you to provide explicit consent forms to your users, perform a DPIA, assign roles in your company, notify the Data Protection Authority in your country (in some cases), and many other tasks.
How to protect personal information in your business?
TAKE STOCK. Know what personal information you have in your files and on your computers. Inventory all computers, laptops, mobile devices, flash drives, disks, home computers, digital copiers, and other equipment to find out where your company stores sensitive data.