S UMM E R 2 0 2 3 7 OXEN NETWORKED things that need our attention. We need to better manage our online identities to ensure continual access, decrease our risks of compromise, and be consistent in how we authenticate or recover accounts. The price we pay for mismanagement can easily be account takeover fraud, business email compromise, pass-through cyberattacks, and/or financial fraud because of compromised online identities. And last, but not least, reacting to and dealing with identity compromise is frustrating and can require a lot of time to restore access and clean up any damaging effects. KEY TAKEAWAYS Here’s what I’d like to share with all of you: • Password managers are a necessary and vital component to digital estate management. • For usernames, where supported, use variations of a username—especially for critical accounts. • Create unique passwords or passphrases across all accounts, and make them 20+ characters long. • Enable MFA on all critical accounts. Get organized about how to manage your MFA codes and store them in an authenticator phone app. • Separate your personal and work email addresses. Use a separate email address for critical accounts. • For backup email accounts used for account recovery, dedicate an email address from a public email provider that’s different from the provider of your main email accounts. • Don’t accurately answer security questions, like your mother’s maiden name, since that information may be publicly available. Make up the answer instead. Treat every security question as a potential backdoor for a cybercriminal to reset your account. OXEN Technology can help you increase the security of the online identities within your business or organization. Call 888.296.3619 to learn more.
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