With all the recent news focused on the classification of secret government information, it is a good time to remind employers of some of the steps they can take to address the security of confidential or proprietary information and trade. Times have, indeed, changed. Access to information has become easier. Employees are highly mobile, a fact exacerbated even more during the Great Resignation. Given these realities, what is clear is vigilance benefits employers who do not want their company information to become publicly available—or possibly even worse, privately available and in the wrong hands.

Here are five steps likely to keep trade secrets, secret:

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