Lock It
Protect the information that you keep.
- Put documents and other materials containing personally identifiable information in a locked room or file cabinet.
- Remind employees to put files away, log off their computers, and lock their file cabinets and office doors at the end of the day.
- Implement appropriate access controls for your building.
- Encrypt sensitive information if you must send it over public networks.
- Regularly run up-to-date anti-virus and anti-spyware programs on individual computers.
- Require employees to use strong passwords.
- Caution employees against transmitting personal information via e-mail.
- Create security policies for laptops used both within your office, and while traveling.
- Use a firewall to protect your computers and your network.
- Set “access controls” to allow only trusted employees with a legitimate business need to access the network.
- Monitor incoming Internet traffic for signs of security breaches.
- Check references and do background checks before hiring employees who will have access to sensitive data.
- Create procedures to ensure workers who leave your organization no longer have access to sensitive information.
- Educate employees about how to avoid phishing and phone pretexting scams.
Territorial Savings, a division of Bank of Hope and the Territorial Savings, a division of Bank of Hope logo are registered trademarks of Bank of Hope. Territorial Savings Bank has merged into Bank of Hope. All accounts and agreements previously held by Territorial Savings Bank are now under Bank of Hope. Your account terms remain unchanged, but any documents referencing Territorial Savings Bank are now governed by Bank of Hope as the legal entity. Bank of Hope is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). This means your deposits are insured up to $250,000 per depositor, for each account ownership category. Deposits held under the names of Bank of Hope and Territorial Savings are not separately insured. Deposits from each of these banks must be combined for purposes of determining whether a depositor has exceeded the federal insurance deposit limit.