Ken Griffey Jr. was known for his smooth swing and raw power. And as a Major League Baseball player, Griffey certainly knew the importance of making adjustments in order to achieve success against opposing pitchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The final blog post for my MCO 425 class is about security and privacy online. When I first signed on with America Online in 1994, there were no concerns (that I can recall, at least) of people stealing credit card numbers or other sensitive information. My biggest concern was whether or not I would sign on at full 56000 baud, or be stuck at 9600 speed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Much has changed online since then, and we as consumers have needed to make adjustments in order to succeed against digital threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By sticking to websites that are familiar to me, not clicking on random hyperlinks, and being very suspicious of emails at work that originate from outside of our organization, I have practiced Defensive Privacy. This has helped fight off phishers and identity thieves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Early on I learned a lesson about email address books, when I started seeing emails from friends with links and text saying \u201chey, check this out!\u201d Those emails didn\u2019t seem like they came from my friends, so I ignored them. Then I would hear about others getting viruses on their computers, and someone would realize that their email was hacked. So I made it a point not to use address books, so my friends would not fall victim if my email was ever compromised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I do not save my passwords on web browsers. Instead, I log in each time I visit a secure website. I do not use the same password for multiple sites. I keep a cheat sheet in my wallet which has enough info on it to remind me of the unique password combination for each site, but not enough that a stranger would crack the code if I ever lost my wallet. In addition, I do not use Google or Facebook as a gateway to log into sites that have that option. Again, if one of those accounts is hacked, I feel that more damage can be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It seemed that many of my friends rushed to get Alexa, Siri and similar smart devices for their homes when they were introduced to the market.\u00a0 I have never added that feature on my phone or purchased a unit for my home, because I have concerns about the constant surveillance and recording that goes with it.\u00a0 I have nothing to hide, but I consider it a total privacy issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After expanding my digital awareness in MCO 425, what adjustments will I make going forward?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n A number of my financial accounts already feature two-factor authentication, but I will look into that possibility with all of my log-ins. We read about the importance of using encryption on our laptops, so I plan to look into that upgrade. And finally, although I have been fairly good about allowing updates to take place on my computers, I will be more proactive about making sure that I have the latest versions of software and applications installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ken Griffey Jr. was known for his smooth swing and raw power. And as a Major League Baseball player, Griffey certainly knew the importance of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrellsmind.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}