Survey: Real estate businesses lacking in information security; they should proactively protect this information, says Lauren Reynolds, Rose Law Group litigation attorney who focuses on privacy and data breach issues

RISMedia Few real estate businesses have policies in place for handling confidential information—information about clients, namely—and even less understand legal requirements about housing and/or trashing sensitive information, according to a recently released survey. Per findings from the Shred-it Information Security Tracker Survey, conducted by Ipsos, 26 percent of real estate businesses have no formal procedure for managing personal information on …