Hotel Security: How to Protect Your Hotel and Your Guests from a Data Breach - By Kevin... - 0 views
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Information thieves are increasingly targeting hotels due to the large amount of personal information collected from guests.
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Failure to take precautionary measures can ultimately affect your hotel’s bottom line, and lead guests to feel unsafe and not wanting to return.
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A Ponemon report shows that 63% of organizations have had a data breach as a result of employees using their mobile devices to access the company’s sensitive and confidential information.
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Despite the fact that 86% of companies have document destruction procedures in place, only 40% of businesses have a system followed by employees.
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With technology changing hotel operating systems, it is important for the hotel industry to re-visit information security procedure and continuously educate themselves on data security protocols.
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This article talks about the increasing cyber threats in hotels and its consequences for the guests. The hotel guests are paying more attention to how their data is being stored, pushing hotels to make some much needed changes in their data security plan. Despite these pressures, many hotels do not have any proper protection measures. "The Hospitality Technology's 2017 Lodging technology Study showed that a surprising 74% of hotels do not have proper protection measures in place". Steps to prevent such breaches and avoid millions of dollars in loss and reputation damages are mentioned in this article. Some practical ways highlighted in this article are: Provide on-going staff training, implement mobile security plan etc.