{"id":4539,"date":"2014-03-28T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/corporate-identity-theft-prevention\/"},"modified":"2014-03-28T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T16:08:00","slug":"corporate-identity-theft-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/insights\/corporate-identity-theft-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Identity Theft Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p>Most people are aware of the dangers of someone stealing and&#13;<br \/>\nmisusing their identity for fraudulent activity. Unfortunately, less people are&#13;<br \/>\nfamiliar with the same crime at a corporate level. In the case of business, a&#13;<br \/>\ncriminal will steal information about a business identity and use it to&#13;<br \/>\nestablish lines of credit with banks or retailers. These criminals generally&#13;<br \/>\npurchase items that can be bought and exchanged for cash or sold quickly.<\/p>\n<p>With the fast-paced world of technology, criminals have&#13;<br \/>\nbecome very good at keeping up with online security best practices. Its been&#13;<br \/>\nsaid that with the rapidly changing environment, the same technology that you&#13;<br \/>\nrely on to conduct your business can also leave you exposed to criminals and&#13;<br \/>\nfraud threats. The cost to clean up and correct the damage of identity theft can&#13;<br \/>\ncost hundreds of dollars and hours of time. The goal of preventing identity&#13;<br \/>\ntheft is to put in place the best possible defense against fraudsters.<\/p>\n<p>Weve developed some tips to provide your business with the&#13;<br \/>\ninformation necessary to avoid and reduce the threats of business identity&#13;<br \/>\ntheft:<\/p>\n<h2>Tips for preventing corporate identity theft<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Have a business protection plan that includes&#13;<br \/>\nsteps to prevent and deal with identity theft<\/li>\n<li>Protect sensitive information and records<\/li>\n<li>Shred documents that are not necessary to keep<\/li>\n<li>Do not share financial documents, personal&#13;<br \/>\ninformation, or account numbers via email or other web-based services<\/li>\n<li>Adopt strict policies and procedures, which involve&#13;<br \/>\ninterrogating internal systems to detect weak spots that may be vulnerable to&#13;<br \/>\nfraudulent activity<\/li>\n<li>Train staff to detect red flags<\/li>\n<li>Use strong usernames and passwords<\/li>\n<li>Monitor billing activity and your businesss&#13;<br \/>\ncredit report<\/li>\n<li>Sign up for email alerts on your accounts<\/li>\n<li>Implement a secure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/solutions\/\">fraud prevention&#13;<br \/>\nsolution<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Needless to say, the impact upon any business that falls&#13;<br \/>\nvictim of corporate identity theft can be highly damaging. Organizations can be&#13;<br \/>\nleft devastated and the reputation of the company can be destroyed.&#13;<br \/>\nUnfortunately, no business is immune from being a victim. With robust systems&#13;<br \/>\nand procedures in place  you can make a difference and significantly reduce&#13;<br \/>\nyour vulnerability to this type of activity.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>[Contributed by EVS Marketing]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people are aware of the dangers of someone stealing and misusing their identity for fraudulent activity. Unfortunately, less people are familiar with the same crime at a corporate level. In the case of business, a criminal will steal information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}