Bureau of Consumer Protection

The Acting Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, Thomas B. Pahl, recently commenced a ‘Stick with Security’ series of blog posts that analyze the data security principles championed by the FTC in its Start with Security guidance. The posts are intended to impart lessons the FTC has learned via investigations and enforcement actions, and to highlight good/bad practices implemented by businesses, since the FTC’s issuance of its Start with Security guidance in June 2015.

In its first three posts (available here, here, and here), the FTC emphasized a number of straightforward best practices that can help businesses mitigate potential penalties in the event of a data security incident, including:
Continue Reading FTC Issues ‘Stick with Security’ Guidance Emphasizing Data Security Best Practices