Preventing identity theft in your business : how to protect your business, customers, and employees / Judith M. Collins.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is an "identity"? -- Identity theft: effects on victims -- Identity crime is entrenched -- Identity crimes are escalating -- Legal requirements for business -- Caveat lector. let the reader beware -- Your business identities -- Tighten your business borders -- Securing the people front: the security job analysis -- The people front: recruitment for security -- The people front: personnel selection for security -- The people front: select for motivation -- The people front: select for integrity and security -- The people front: select for interpersonal skills -- Socialization, company culture, and the realistic job preview -- The security orientation program: socializing newcomers to the honest company culture -- The people front: appraisal and feedback for performance and security -- The process front: secure business information processes -- The property front: the e-business web site -- The customer security program -- E-commerce "best practices" for customers -- The legislative process -- HIPAA: security for health care companies.

"Preventing Identity Theft in Your Business is the first book to address identity fraud from the business perspective. It helps employee-manager teams develop a set of security standards using step-by-step instructions written in plain, easy-to-understand language. Identity theft expert Judith Collins offers practical guidance on how to spot identity theft, as well as how to prevent it from ever occurring. Using techniques culled from industrial and organizational psychology, the management sciences, and the field of criminal justice, the methods covered here are inexpensive, comprehensive, and universally applicable to all business, regardless of size, type, or geographic location."--Jacket.