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Safeguarding Your Digital Footprints and Cyber Security

Understand the impact of your digital footprint and learn how to maintain cyber security. Explore the importance of online privacy, ways to leave a positive online presence, and strategies to recognize and prevent cyber threats.

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Safeguarding Your Digital Footprints and Cyber Security

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  1. Digital Footprints & Cyber Security • Written by: • Hannah BrockNicolaus Lopez • Rachel Roberson • Natalie Quinchia • Alissa Ovalle • Presented by: • ____________________

  2. Digital Footprint “Every day most of us contribute to an evolving public presentation of who we are that anyone can see and that we cannot erase. We might think we are at home on our laptops, cell phones or iPads communicating with just a few people on our friends list. But in reality we are in a huge auditorium speaking into a public address system to a world that can record and distribute everything we say.”

  3. What is a Digital Footprint • Digital footprint is the presence that you leave behind online • It is a trail of data that is associated with your online name • Your digital footprint is PERMANENT • Digital Footprint

  4. How to Leave a Positive Footprint • Make your password strong- and DO NOT share it with anyone • Always remember to logout when you are finished online • Know what information about you is available for the public to see • Check privacy setting and adjust them from the default • Most importantly… T.H.I.N.K. before you post or search • 5 Ways to Make a Positive Digital Footprint

  5. What is Cyber Security? • Cyber Security 101 • Protection of your computer and network against: • Unauthorized attacks • Unwanted data • It matters to everyone http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2014/10/01/why-cyber-security-matters-to-everyone/

  6. Why is Cyber Security Important? • It is how all personal and private information stored on the web is able to stay private and secure • Personal information is stored, accessed, and processed all throughout the web • Doctors • Government • Bank • Amazon • According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the U.S. will need 700,000 new cyber security professionals by 2015.

  7. What is the financial impact? Can you guess how much money cybercrime has cost us? • "The world isn’t run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It’s run by little ones and zeros, little bits of data... There’s a war out there... and it’s not about who’s got the most bullets. It’s about who controls the information.” (Federation of American Scientists)

  8. Phishing • What is Phishing? • http://security.fsu.edu/content/download/298639/2091991/oneclick.mp4 • How to spot a Phish: • AVOID attachments and links in suspicious e-mails

  9. Questions? Comments?

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