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Small Business: Your digital-info legacy

Keeping passwords and other digital information safe is

Photo credit: iStock | Keeping passwords and other digital information safe is important, after all they are the keys to a company's kingdom. But owners and managers should have a plan for revealing the information in their absence, experts say.

Jamie Herzlich

Newsday columnist Jamie Herzlich Jamie Herzlich

Herzlich writes the Small Business column in Newsday.

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Many business owners like to think they're unstoppable.

But the reality is that at any point death or illness can strike unexpectedly.

And for business owners who haven't documented processes or procedures, or put someone in charge of their digital afterlife, it can be hard to keep the business going in their absence.

"It's not good business practice to take your secrets to the...

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