Business Integrity: Does Yours Have It?
In the world of compliance, businesses often can’t see the forest for the trees in regards to what securing and encrypting email is all about.
Following compliance regulations and abiding by federal standards must be achieved to maintain a legitimate, profitable business. So when secure email became the next “checkmark” on the list of compliance requirements, businesses took action to avoid the severe, potentially business-ending, fines that would ensue. But, what’s often missing is the information that’s truly at stake — your clients, customers, and employees.
Secure email is more than just your next compliance “checkmark”. It addresses what’s at a business’ core: integrity.
Ensuring that clients, customers, and employees are protected should be the primary goal when choosing a secure email solution, because it’s often their information that is exposed when a data breach occurs or a department in an organization is compromised.
Think about how severe the ramifications would be if, for example, a healthcare patient’s files were exposed to the public. We’re talking Social Security Numbers, Healthcare ID Numbers, Credit Card information, and private Doctor-Patient shared information and diagnoses.
Identity theft is just the tip of the iceberg at that point.
These are the people that your business works both for and with. It’s important that they entrust your business with their private information, but also that your business reciprocates, ensuring that their information is secure from an outside attack.
Data breaches and their attached monetary figures and repercussions have flooded the headlines, but it’s what’s underneath that is of significant consequence.
Underneath, the business not only loses credibility, reputation, and legitimacy when information is compromised, but the people attached to that business are also thrown into a state of flux. As private information leaks, their own private credibility, and credit for that matter, quickly dissolves. And why? Because a business chose to save a couple thousand dollars a year instead of protecting the people that keep it functioning?
The business isn’t the only thing at stake when a data breach occurs.
It’s become commonplace these days for businesses to act with a bit more integrity: properly compensating employees, offering significant benefit and vacation packages, and addressing the needs of customers in a personalized manner. This is what you’d call taking care of people.
But, what’s the point of all the perks when what’s most important — their personal information — goes unprotected?
Secure email isn’t just about secure email, it’s about the people worth protecting.
Take the next step today.
