CEO Fraud, Online Safety on AM1280 The Patriot with Brad Carlson, Sunday, November 26, 2023

Here is my cyber-safety checklist. I have an hour long presentation with details on all these. Or opt in to get these via email.

• Email hygiene.
• Updates; keep your devices updated.
• Authentication; make sure the other party is who they claim to be.
• Trust; learn how trust over the internet works.
• Password management; passphrases beat complex passwords.
• Backups; keep them separate from your live data so ransomware can’t find them.
• Social media; don’t fall victim to public indoctrination, grooming, or bullying.
• Mobility; your phone is a computer in hostile territory.
• Tech Tools; antivirus, inbound spam and outbound filters are helpful, but…
• Awareness; there will never be any substitute for old-fashioned human awareness.
• Care and share to be prepared; we all win when we learn from each others’ mistakes.
• Read three great books; enjoy the fiction, use the education.