04/07/2022
The Ins and Outs of Cybersecurity
As seen in Diversity in STEAM Magazine
Cybersecurity involves preventing, detecting, and responding to cyberattacks that can have wide-ranging effects on individuals, organizations, the community, and the national level.
Cyberattacks can occur in many ways, including:
🖥 Accessing your personal computers, mobile phones, gaming systems, and other internet and Bluetooth-connected devices.
🖥 Damaging your financial security, including identity theft.
🖥 Blocking your access or deleting your personal information and accounts.
🖥 Targeting children and adults.
🖥 Complicating your employment, business services, transportation, and power grid.
The following are things you can do to protect yourself, your family, and your property before a cyberattack occurs:
🖥 Limit the personal information you share online. Change privacy settings and do not use location features.
🖥 Keep software applications and operating systems up to date.
🖥 Using a password manager, use upper and lowercase letters, numbers, special characters, and two-factor authentication (two methods of verification).
🖥 Watch for suspicious activity that asks you to do something right away, offers something that sounds too good to be true, or needs your personal information.
🖥 Think before you click, and when in doubt, do NOT click. Do not provide personal information.
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