Data Security: What You Don’t Know Could Hurt You

“When we put our own systems through this kind of testing, we didn’t know what they were going to do, or when,” says Odell, referring to a penetration test that his Irvine,Calif.-based firm had done

Other ways marketers can protect their data security systems, include the following:

Keep customer data in the U.S. Data can be compromised if it’s being transmitted outside the U.S., where there’s no oversight by federal laws.