The first thing to do to help prevent business identity theft is to secure individual identities, Siciliano said.
"The fact is that really no one has been properly identified or authenticated at this point. You have an employee ID number or a Social Security number, but those are just digits assigned to us and don't connect to who we are. Business certificates, letterhead, paperwork, that can be reproduced. Social Security cards and birth certificates are easily counterfeited as well.
The desktop PC, a scanner and printer have antiquated all forms of ID as we know it."
