Human resources protecting confidentiality

1. Human Resources:
Protecting Confidentiality
BUSINESS STUDENT AT PENN STATE MONT ALTO
TAYLOR CANNON

2. Protect your company’s confidential information
 On the minds of business professionals:
Confidentiality
Privacy
Security

3. What is confidentiality?
 Involves numerous concepts/ different circumstances
 Different types of information must be protected
 Most is stolen because of poorly trained employees
 Insiders caused 60% of data breaches
 75% done with malicious intent
 25% were accidental

4. Protect Customers and Clients
 Obtaining consent to collect personal informational must be
reinforced
 Confidential information must be presented with confidence
 Create policies

5. Protect Employees
 Employees are required to give their employers with
information
 Employment history
 Criminal background
 Credit scores
 Immigration status
 Etc.

6. Workplace Privacy
 Privacy battleground
 State laws tend to govern privacy rules in the
workplace
 Constitutional right to privacy
 Employers tend to monitor employees

7. Protect Management Information
 Company executives are often
involved with:
 Strategic objectives
 Business deals
 Mergers and acquisitions
 Sales and financial reports
Failing to protect
confidential management
information can result in:
Broken deals
Unwanted press
Judgement of criticism
Failed investigations
Outright sabotage

8. Legal Confidentiality
 Three types of confidentiality rules
Attorney-client communication privilege
General ethical duty of confidentiality
Work-product doctrine

9. Nondisclosure Agreements
An agreement between two parties that
wish to share confidential information and
make sure it's not disclosed to third
parties.

10. Noncompetition Agreements
 Companies like to protect their confidential
information and strategic advantages using these
agreements.
 Governed by state regulations and court rulings

11. Trade Secret Protections
The law protects information such as a formula, a
pattern, compilation, program, device, method,
technique, process, drawing, data, or customer list that
derives independent economic value because it's not
generally known or readily available, and reasonable
efforts are made by the company to maintain secrecy

12. Social Media Policies
 Companies are concerned with employees leaking
confidential company information
 Restrict employees from using social media on employer
equipment
 Employers have the right to limit what they post on social
media

13. Cybersecurity
 Companies use applications to make sure they are
secure
 Designed to protect confidential information
 Security of a company’s entire computer network
and information system
 Maintain a virus free system

14. Document Management
 Can be either electronic stored or paper
 Three aspects of document management are:
Storage
Retention limits
Destruction

15. Bottomline
Important information of
companies and individuals must
be secured and protected.