AARP Inside E Street - Interview with Prevendra's CEO, Christopher Burgess

Keeping Safe with Online Safety

Prevendra‘s CEO, Christopher Burgess has been providing advice re online safety and security for seniors for many years.  Here he speaks to the topic on AARP‘s television program, Inside E Street.  This interview occurred when Christopher was the Senior Security Advisor at Cisco Systems.  In this short, 7 minute piece, he speaks to a number of different areas of concern, which remain valid today.   To watch the video click “Christopher Burgess providing Online Safety Advice”

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Online Safety Topics Covered:

Major threats –
Social Media engagement – Too Much Information allows the criminal element to target and exploit – cybercrime
Learn methodologies on how criminals work Identities; targeting seniors and posing as a vendor, bank, friend – all with sense of urgency
Protect privacy – know what you are sharing and how you are sharing and when you are sharing
Userid:   Mavis45Ok – might be a female of 45 yrs of age in OK – make the userid age, gender and location neutral
Passwords:  Sharing or reusing – Passwords are like toothbrushes, you change them often and don’t share.
Password list – How Christopher uses Red Folder at home.
Tools:
Updating of Anti-virus and Anti-malware – keep the software up-to-date
Phish:
If you didn’t buy the ticket to the Irish Lottery you probably didn’t win the lottery.
If a vendor ever asks for your credit card data via email – educate the vendor that you do not put yourself at risk by sharing Personal Identifying Information.
Never send your credit card data via email
Job Fraud – advertising information for jobs which don’t exist – purpose is to harvest your personal info for Id-Theft
Know who you are dealing with!

Being online is not an option, we know this, engaging in safe online practices is an option.  One option which you should absolutely opt-in and take advantage of recommended cyber practices, what we collectively call as “Good Cyber Hygiene”

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