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Data Room Security Guide
A data room security guide for small acquisitions covering NDA gating, permissions, document hygiene and sensitive metric handling.
Security controls
- Gate customer lists, bank exports, source code and supplier contracts behind NDA review.
- Use least-privilege access and remove viewers when a buyer is no longer active.
- Watermark sensitive files and keep an access log for every serious buyer.
Data hygiene
- Redact personal data when full records are not needed.
- Separate summary proof from raw exports.
- Keep a final signed-off evidence bundle for closing.