Connecticut Better Business Bureau is offering the public a free online data security tool.
The Data Security-Made Simpler program is designed to help businesses protect internal company data and customers’ personal information, including credit card numbers.
The BBB says the free download is available to all visitors at www.bbb.org through a program logo hyperlink in the lower right corner of its home page.
The protection package was developed in partnership  with data security experts at Symantec Corp., Visa Inc., Kroll’s Fraud Solutions and NACHA – The Electronic Payments Association.
