Identity Management Day: The Importance of Identity Security
April 9, 2024
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 is Identity Management Day--a day dedicated to helping everyone understand how to protect their digital identities. If one of your accounts is compromised and your data is stolen by a cybercriminal they could use it to steal your identity, steal your money, or create phishing\vishing\SMS attacks to steal from others.
How can you protect yourself, your identity, and your data?
- Make long and strong passwords.
- Make passwords different for each account\device. This will mean using a password manager since remembering would be difficult. IF you prefer to write them down, put that in a safe for protection.
- Enable two-factor\multi-factor\biometric authentication on as many accounts\devices that you own
- Use email\internet\social media with suspicion
- Don't use public\unknown\unsecure wi-fi for any activity where a password is involved
- Check the website https://haveibeenpwned.com/ once/year to see if your passwords\accounts have been compromised
- Check your credit reports for free once per year to see if your financial accounts have been compromised