Ask HN: Best practices for ASPs handling Enterprise customer data?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582195
by mooneater • 17 years ago
4 1 17 years ago

As an ASP-model business, some of our enterprise clients will want to audit our data security, integrity, and privacy practices. Any pointers to best practices?

We do standard things like: always use SSL, hashed passwords, daily backups, proper privacy policy and TOS, software firewall, testing for SQL injection, using a reputable data-center. We will be adding data scrubbing, hot backups, and XSS protection. But what am I missing? What is critical and what is optional?

Ideally I would like a comprehensive checklist, of the type that would satisfy a multinational client in the hi-tech industry. The data includes names, email addresses, and physical home and work addresses. We currently store no payment information or SSNs.

Btw our platform is currently Linux/PHP/Postgres, medium-term we will move from PHP to Python. Many thanks!

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