A Bumpy Ride along the Information Highway

The frequent news headlines about unintended exposure and theft of customer information from popular websites is a great reminder that we all of to take steps to protect our online personal data management rather than relying website owners to do it for us.

Many websites offer helpful suggestions for options such as guiding you through creation of secure passwords and using two factor authentication ("2FA") to reduce the risk of personal data exposure and theft. This is a good place to start and checking the policies of websites for how they preserve the privacy and security of your data will also help. Particularly for personal information such as credit card and financial data, email addresses, telephone numbers, home and work addresses, birth dates and government-issued identification numbers, it is vital to understand what measures online banking institutions, retailer websites and governments use to protect your data...and then take your own additional steps to protect data further.

Password manager applications and virtual private network ("VPN") service providers can help. To learn more, feel free to contact me.