Learn How to Protect Your Security
The goal of our coalition is to ensure the best technologies are available to help you to protect yourself and your family. Additionally, knowing the critical steps to take to secure your personal information and keep it private will make all the difference.
- Protect your personal information. It’s valuable.
- Know who you are dealing with.
- Use security software that automatically updates.
- Keep your operating system and Web browser up-to-date, and learn more about their security features.
- Keep your passwords safe secure and strong.
- Back up important files.
- Know who to call when you’re under attack or if you’ve been hacked.
- Join the Secure ID Coalition.
(From onguardonline.com)
For additional information, please visit On Guard Online
Don’t forget to test your Cybersecurity knowledge by playing these games.
Enjoy this video from the National Cyber Security Alliance:
Secure News to Know
-
Why We Need Biometric ID Cards
Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) met yesterday with President Obama to discuss their immigration reform proposal. When he was a presidential candidate, Obama promised he would address immigration reform early in his administration; the Senators’ plan offers the beginnings of the debate. One topic on the agenda for yesterday’s meeting was a proposed biometric-enabled ID card that allows for the definitive identification of workers.
Read more...
-
Medical Identity Theft is Coming... Don't be a Victim!
According to a recent survey by The Ponemon Institute, six percent of Americans have been victims of medical identity theft. This problem, while seemingly small, is on the rise and is increasingly costly patients, doctors and the larger healthcare economy. Unless action is taken to secure our medical records, medical identity theft will become more prevalent as records begin to be digitized and move online. Read more...
-
Microsoft gets e-ID right
Microsoft gets it right and this time it’s not Windows 7, but managing our identities online. Scott Charney, Microsoft Corporate VP of Trustworthy Computing, addressed the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco this week and reiterated the importance of using real-world identity proofing to establish one’s digital identity. Because criminal and nefarious activity online is so extensive, impacting consumers, corporations, and government, knowing with whom you are doing business is essential for both security and privacy protection.
Read more...
-
Wake Up: E-Verify Doesn't Actually Verify Workers
This past December, a report to the Department of Homeland Security, on E-Verify, found the system has significant problems; wrongly verifying over half of the unauthorized worker population, a failing grade by any academic standard.
Read more...