Have you ever stopped to consider how information your organization accesses and communicates over the internet is secured? Due to a lack of available security procedures, we are constantly forced to compromise the confidentiality of our organization’s own information for easy and simplicity of use when we create user accounts on websites, submit information in web pages, and send out sensitive email communications and exchange documents via file hosting services. Your organization’s sensitive information typically gets stored at internet and service providers in insecure ways completely outside of your organization’s control, resulting in the unintended disclosure of confidential information.

We would like to highlight steps that can be taken to better protect identify insecure vulnerabilities when communicating sensitive and confidential information. Although no magic solution exists to remove all possible information disclosure threats, there is technology today that can manage risk and minimize disclosure of sensitive and confidential information thus improving your organizations compliance with existing ethical obligations – including obligations your organization may currently be taking for granted.