PII Introduction and Best Practices

Course Details

Personally identifiable information, or PII, is data that can identify an individual. This could include someone’s birthdate, address, phone number, etc. Think about how often you’ve entered this information online for various transactions. All of this data is being collected, analyzed, and processed by businesses and shared with other companies to gain insight into how to better interact with customers. Obviously, these businesses must protect this personal information and keep it private and safe from data breaches and cyberattacks. In this course, we’ll talk about which data qualifies as PII, discuss the laws surrounding data protection, and go over how organizations use and protect this sensitive information.

What you’ll learn

You’ll learn the following in this three-part course:

• What Personally identifiable information, or PII, is and how this data can identify an individual.
• Learn what data qualifies as PII, discuss data protection laws, and review how organizations use and protect this sensitive information.
• How to handle personally identifiable information or PII. It’s crucial to safeguard individual privacy, maintain customer trust, and ensure compliance with relevant regulations.
• Learn about the laws that regulate the use of PII and what businesses must do to stay compliant.
• Understand how to protect the information you handle helps to prevent disasters like data breaches, identity fraud, financial fraud, and other legal consequences.
• Learn the process to keep PII safe, which includes these five steps: take stock, scale down, lock it, pitch it, and plan ahead.