FTC Identity Theft Resources for Businesses 

Protecting Personal Information: Five Steps for Business

Take Stock: Conducting a Data Security Audit in Your Office

Scale Down: Why Less is More When Securing Sensitive Information

Lock It: Protecting Your Office from Info Thieves

Pitch It: Give Personal Info the Shred Carpet Treatment

Plan Ahead: How a Security Response Plan Can Help Your Business Expect the Unexpected

The Lowdown on Laptops: Data Security for the Road Warrior

Protecting Personal Information – Know Why

Slip Showing? Federal Law Requires All Businesses to Truncate Credit Card Information on Receipts 

Protecting Personal Information: A Guide for Business (with interactive tutorial)There are a growing number of legislative initiatives that have been enacted or are in process that address consumer and business concerns on identity theft. Visit the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 page on our site, for information on the legislation that calls for the improvement of consumer records and the business obligation to protect consumer information from threat of identity theft.   

Additionally, get to know the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule; the final rules of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003. The final rules require each financial institution and creditor that holds any consumer account, or other account for which there is a reasonably foreseeable risk of identity theft, to develop and implement an Identity Theft Prevention Program for combating identity theft in connection with new and existing accounts. Visit the Red Flags Rules page on our site, for more information on how businesses can protect their information assets and how to provide notice of address discrepancies.