Watch Out! Most Outsourcing Involves PII

by Rebecca Herold

Personally identifiable information (PII) plays a key role and is involved within many business processes. PII is stored in an extremely large number of corporate systems and data storage repositories. Because of all the business processes and storage locations, every decision to outsource a business process or business activity may involve access to PII, or the transfer of PII from the organization to a third party, and possibly even subcontracted parties.