Creating, promoting, and following best practices help enhance online safety, data security, privacy, and brand and consumer protection. Organizations of all sizes should apply these efforts, following a review of their respective legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
Best Practices
Best Practices: Infrastructure Security
Optimize TLS implementation using information gleaned from public tools. This includes eliminating use of insecure ciphers and older, insecure...
Best Practices: Privacy
Basic Notice/Disclosure Make sure the privacy statement has a link and is easily discoverable from the home page. Place...
Best Practices: Email Unsubscribe
Email is a vibrant channel for marketers to connect with consumers on many fronts, providing an important value exchange...
Best Practices: Enterprise IoT Security Checklist
The Internet of Things (IoT) has found its way into all aspects of our lives. In particular, consumer IoT...
Best Practices: Cyber Incident Response Readiness
Complete risk assessments for executive review, operational process and third-party vendors Review security best practices and validate your organization’s...
Best Practices: Botnets
About Botnets A “bot” or “botnet” is a program installed on a system to enable that system to automatically...
Best Practice: Extended Validation Certificates (EVSSL)
We increasingly live, interact, and do business online, making the concept of online trust more important than ever before....
Best Practices: Certificate Types
E-commerce has grown at exponential rates, with consumers recognizing the convenience of purchasing online and making secure and private...
Best Practices: Email Authentication – SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
Email security, authentication, and related best practices are the foundation of the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance work to...
Best Practices: Consumer IoT Information & Resources
The Internet of Things is changing the way we live, from increasing our energy efficiency (and saving money on...
Best Practices
Industry Best Practices OTA provides best practices, resources, and guidance to help enhance online safety, data security, privacy, and...
Best Practices: Mobile App Privacy & Security
As mobile usage and application development continues to grow, the need to adopt best practices in data security, app...