5 personal (and cheap) data privacy tools that scale for business

5 personal (and cheap) data privacy tools that scale for business

Smart selections when starting small can ease the pain as you scale up your company’s privacy infrastructure



If, unlike enterprise customers, you don’t have six figures to spend, what are some things you can do to protect your data that can scale as your business grows? Even if you don’t plan on scaling to an IPO, but are looking for good, solid privacy tech on the cheap, here are five ideas to help.



Multifactor authentication (aka MFA)



You don’t have to go crazy here to get decent protection: a sub-US$50 hardware authentication device (typically USB/NFC) from a reputable manufacturer can really help you lock things down – and software choices abound as well. If your company goes public and you need something bigger and more complex, you can still use this technology at scale, and it’s very hard to hack.



Password management



Here the important thing is to PICK SOMETHING that has a good reputation for security. They’re normally cheap or free and you can integrate the well-known ones with larger systems, should the need arise down the road.



Email encryption



You don’t have to be a rocket scientist anymore; you can download free or cheap software like GPG that can be used to sign email communication, making it practically impossible for an adversary to spoof your email … or you can fully encrypt it, so an adversary cannot intercept its meaning … or both. If your email recipient receives an email supposedly from you and it doesn’t have a cryptographic signature, they should know something may be amiss.



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