Preventing Identity Theft in Your Business - by Judith M Collins Hardcover

Book Synopsis

Preventing Identity Theft in Your Business is a reliable guide to help protect companies, their customers, and their employees from the growing problem of identity theft. Real-life examples show managers and executives how to identify business, customer, and employee identity theft, how these crimes are committed, how best to prevent them, and overall, develop an honest company culture. It also covers how to manage this threat in business reorganizations such as mergers, acquisitions, globalization, and outsourcing.

From the Back Cover

IDENTITY THEFT IN YOUR BUSINESS STOPS HERE

Identified by the FBI as the top crime of the twenty-first century, identity theft is most commonly committed inside the workplace, and the victims are always a company's employees and customers. Executives, managers, and consultants can now use the latest tools and know-how for combating identity theft with the help of Preventing Identity Theft in Your Business.

Preventing Identity Theft in Your Business presents a comprehensive, four-factor model for implementing an effective information security plan and provides step-by-step guidance on employee selection and training. Brimming with exercises to make each approach easy to implement, this breakthrough guide explores how to:

• Secure personal identification information across four fronts: personnel, processes, proprietary information, and virtual property, such as an e-business Web site
• Implement a comprehensive security model, including Web site risk assessment
• Screen and test employees who have access to sensitive information

Rich with real-world case studies illustrating how identity theft is committed and prevented, Preventing Identity Theft in Your Business clearly demonstrates how you and your employees can foster an honest work culture in your workplace.

Review Quotes

"plenty to spark introspection and debate" (Accounting Technician, 25th September 2005)

About the Author

JUDITH M. COLLINS, PHD, is Associate Professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University (MSU), where she teaches information security management. She is also Director of MSU-Business Identity Theft Partnerships in Prevention and the MSU Identity Theft Crime and Research Lab, established in 1999 to work with businesses, law enforcement, and victims of identity theft. She publishes in academic journals, has been a guest on national and local television and radio shows, and is the subject of more than 100 newspaper articles. She is a frequent speaker and conducts law enforcement training throughout the United States.