Not Your Father’s Cybersecurity Tips: Think Outside the Box to Protect Your Identity During NCSAM

This year, National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) comes on the heels of one of the most devastating cybersecurity breaches in history, which exposed Social Security numbers and other important consumer data belonging to about half the U.S. population. In an age where the volume of breached data has increased more than eightfold in the past five years alone, the basic cybersecurity tips that consumers have relied on in the past aren’t necessarily the best ways to stay afloat in the modern threat landscape.

Five Outside-the-Box Cybersecurity Tips to Protect Your Accounts From Modern Threats

In the wake of countless major security breaches, many of the checkpoints commonly used to prove our digital identities, such as Social Security numbers, email addresses, passwords and personal facts, are now in the hands of fraudsters, meaning they are no longer a valid way to confirm who we are online.  

Consumers should consider the following cybersecurity tips to get ahead of the modern threat landscape, taking into account new guidance around passwords as well as outside-the-box advice that that can help people cope in an age where personal data is no longer private.

Read our tips here.