This week’s cybersecurity focus is to “Own IT.” by managing your privacy.
Your devices — smartphones, laptops, and wearables — make it easy to connect to the world around you, but they can also pack a lot of info about you and your friends and family, such as your contacts, photos, videos, locations and health and financial data. Here are a couple of tips to help manage your privacy in an always-on world:
- Think before you app: Information about you, such as the games you like to play, your contacts list, where you shop and your location, has value, just like money. Be thoughtful about who gets that information and how it’s collected through apps. Remember, personal information is like money. Value it. Protect it.
- Update your privacy settings: Want to view or change your privacy/security settings for all your different accounts, but don’t know where to find them? Our friends at the National Cyber Security Alliance have put together a list of links for popular apps, devices and online services, including social networks, email accounts, search engines, and more. Check it out here: Manage Your Privacy Settings.
Computing Services is here to help you with cybersecurity and answer any questions you may have. Feel free to contact us at (719) 587-7741, computingservices@adams.edu, or stop by our offices in the Computing Services building.
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