Tyler is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at CertifID. He brings a decade of leadership experience developing and launching technology businesses. Before co-founding CertifID, Tyler led new product development at BCG Digital Ventures for Mercedes-Benz, First American Financial, Boston Scientific, and Aflac.
In case your calendar isn’t showing Data Privacy Day occurring this Saturday, January 28, consider this your warning. Acknowledging the importance of data privacy is one thing, but taking the steps to ferret out the potential ways privacy can be broken–and laying out the steps you can take to fix the problem–is something else entirely.
Social engineering can circumvent just about any data privacy technology. Focus on your crown jewels…Enact a multi-layered defense strategy that includes a rapid response plan if the unthinkable happens. And, foster a culture where human error leads to education rather than punishment. That’s the only way we’ll all get better.