What HR Must Know About Protecting Confidential Information

  • 16
  • October 2025
    Thursday
  • 11:00 AM PDT | 02:00 PM EDT

    Duration:  60  Mins

Level

Basic & Intermediate

Webinar ID

IQW25J1041

We will discuss:

  • Just what is confidential information?
  • Protecting customers, clients, and employees.
  • Protecting management information.
  • Pros and cons of non-disclosure agreements.
  • Non-competition agreements.
  • Laws surrounding the drafting and enforcement of social media policies.
  • Maintaining cybersecurity around confidential information.

Take-away value:

  • An understanding of the wide range of confidential information.
  • How you help to identify and protect confidential information.
  • And much more…

Participants receive the Protecting Confidential Information Checklist

Overview of the webinar

There is no doubt that people on the outside…and inside… of your company are looking to access critical confidential information. Some people simply mishandle and expose it. Failure to protect this information can result in lost customers and clients, regulatory fines, lawsuits, brand damage, and more.

HR professionals and other managers are privy to salaries, financial information, health insurance information, social security numbers, and other sensitive employee and customer data. What is it that needs to be kept confidential legally, and what should be included when putting a company policy in place?

In this course, veteran attorney Don Phin helps you gain an understanding of confidentiality by laying out the main areas to consider. He shares best practices that can help both managers and employees behave within legal and ethical parameters. Learn about non-disclosure and non-competition agreements, social media policies, cybersecurity, and more.

Note: As a lawyer, I have had to advise clients on the importance of protecting confidential information. I know it from the HR practices angle, there are others who know it from the more sophisticated technology side of it.

Who should attend?

  • Human Resources Professionals
  • Small Business Owners
  • Non-Profit Administrators
  • General Managers
  • Office Managers
  • Payroll Professionals
  • Accounting Professionals
  • Consultants
  • Labor Unions
  • Professors, Instructors and Trainers

Why should you attend?

Confidential information includes internal secrets, customer, client, and employee information, and much more. HR is tasked with creating policies, procedures, and practices to help maintain the confidentiality of this important information.

Faculty - Mr.Don Phin

Don Phin is a California employment law attorney. He has consulted with hundreds of companies to help improve their employment practices. He has presented over 600 times to CEOs, HR, and other executives on what works in employee relations. Don’s latest book is The 40| |40 Solution: Mastering the Emotional Energy of Leadership and Sales.

Don built HRThatWorks, used by 3,500 companies and sold to ThinkHR in 2014. In addition to consulting and speaking, Don does executive coaching and workplace investigations.

Originally a kid from the Bronx (you may still hear the accent), todayDon lives in sunny Coronado, California.

Credits

ComplianceIQ is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. This program is valid for [1] PDCs for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org.

HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®). Please make note of the activity ID number on your recertification application form. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org

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