A Beginner’s Guide to Data Security & Information Security Compliance Audits

Data Security is Critical for Compliance

If your company isn’t focused on compliance, more than just your reputation is at risk.

It’s no longer just about liquidation or dollars collected. If your company is not compliant – or isn’t interested in improving its compliance measures – you’re going to find it harder and harder to be competitive, effective, and profitable in the marketplace. It’s just that simple.

What can you do now to get started? Relax: we’ve got it covered.

Look: If you are a third-party collector for a creditor, you are going to be audited. This won’t just be an audit of your recovery performance; it will be an audit of your compliance practices. Less than exemplary compliance, in appearance or actuality, can hurt creditors in the marketplace, and that’s a risk more and more creditors are no longer willing to take. In this era of heightened consumer lawsuits, no debt collection company can be effective in this industry while also shirking the responsibility to be fully cognizant of compliance issues.

The Guide to Data Security covers:

• Goals for a comprehensive data security program
• 10 steps to data security
• Information security compliance audits
• Security frameworks
• Audit standards

Register for the companion Data Security & Compliance Webinar

The Beginner’s Guide should be seen as a primer for the accompanying webinar, presented by Interactive Intelligence, Latitude Software, and insideARM.com on February 2, 2012. The tips and talking points introduced here will be part of an expanded conversation in a workshop setting.

With 2012 here, you need to prepare your team for a new batch of challenges – download the paper, register for the webinar and get started today.

Michael Klozotsky
Managing Editor, insideARM.com