Data Security for Restoration Contractors: 1st Party vs. 3rd Party
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It is no secret that big data – for all of its benefits to collaboration, organization, speed and more – brings great risk. There is an ongoing privacy/efficiency exchange at play within restoration and the wider world, in which cloud-based platforms are helping optimize office and field operations in meaningful ways while also exposing contractors to vulnerabilities by way of the sacred data they share and store within.
As contractors move from pen and paper to digital documentation, inputting everything from invoices and P&L, to jobsite photos and 3D scans, to project estimates and more, they’re left wondering what happens to the data they share and how to safeguard it.