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Privacy and security briefing: small businesses at risk, FTC checklist and simple steps to reduce exposure
Summary
A Smith Anderson data privacy specialist and firm lawyers told Raleigh business owners that small firms are frequent targets of breaches, and recommended a short FTC checklist: inventory data, limit collection, lock controls, destroy unneeded data and plan incident response.
David Center, leader of Smith Anderson’s data privacy practice, told the workshop that small businesses face a growing number of cyber incidents and that many are unprepared for a breach. “More than half of data breaches affect small businesses, yet only about 23% of small firms say they are prepared for a cyber incident,” he said.
Center walked attendees through a plain‑English version of the Federal Trade Commission’s five‑step…
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