Protecting personally identifiable information, or PII, is crucial to any organization. Learning how to protect the information you handle helps to prevent disasters like data breaches, identity fraud and financial fraud, and other legal consequences. So, how can you protect all this information? The Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, offers some sound advice to businesses on how to protect PII. It's a process that includes five steps: take stock, scale down, lock it, pitch it, and plan ahead. In this course, we'll talk through each step of the process so your organization can keep data safe.