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Reduce Your ID Theft Risk With 7 Steps

Published on Fri Apr 20, 2012

Surprise audits can serve as deterrents to theft. Consider these field-tested tips on closing the gap on security breaches regarding medical identity theft in your organization: 1. Lock out portable devices. For employees that work in your office, "make sure that all personal belongings are not allowed in the work area such as cell phones or USB thumb drives," says Barbara J. Cobuzzi of CRN Healthcare Solutions in Tinton Falls, N.J. "A secure operation will make sure that employees leave all personal belongings outside the work area so that there cannot be a data breach," she warns. A phone can take a picture of a computer screen and a thumb drive can copy data off a system. So, even in a paperless environment, these electronic devices that are included in the workers' personal belongings need to be considered and barred from the workplace, Cobuzzi adds. 2. Divide up data protection [...]
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