Hack-Proof Your Life Now!
The New Cybersecurity Rules
by Sean M. Bailey and Devin Kropp
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Pub Date Oct 25 2016 | Archive Date Jun 14 2017
Description
Everyone is vulnerable to a cyber attack. Regardless of your age and station in life, one simple click of the mouse can open a Pandora's Box few of us could have imagined even five years ago.
How we handle our online security is critical to protecting our personal and professional lives. But guidance for staying safe in the growing, interconnected world has been fragmented and confusing...until now.
Hack-Proof Your Life Now! demystifies the topic and introduces you to the New Cybersecurity Rules: clear, sensible, and do-able actions that will quickly improve your security.
Authors Sean M. Bailey and Devin Kropp will show you how to measure your Cybersecurity Score and then teach you to improve your safety by acting in three areas: adding more Secrecy to your online life (such as a banking-only email address that hackers won t likely discover), becoming Omniscient over your financial affairs (so you can block identity theft and instantly spot fraud), and adopting principles of Mindfulness to stay safe every day (such as using their 10-Second EMAIL rule to spot dangerous blackmail spam).
Each chapter features a Hack Report story that demonstrates a key security problem many of us face, a New Cybersecurity Rule that reduces or closes that exposure, and a specific Action Step to apply as you build up your defenses and improve your cybersecurity score. An Action Guide in the back provides extra details and helpful resources.
In just a few hours, you can learn to hack-proof your life and fight back against hackers, thieves, and spammers.
Featured Reviews
Ilana W, Reviewer
An excellent book covering all the details of the everyday e-life, offering systematic support and step-by-step plans for a hack-proof life! The book offers a plan and guidance for enjoying a safe and secured Internet life, including about how to set up a hacker-proof password, to use a VPN or to secure important financial and credit information, as well as to prevent identity thief, particularly for your minor children. The language is accessible, and high-end technical knowledge is not required. You just need to follow the steps provided and complete each stage of the process. Strongly recommended to anyone with a minimal online presence.
Kristin C, Reviewer
This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn new ways to be safer on the web because in today's world nobody is safe. There is plenty of information on the myths about the many scams, viruses and ransomware, they also provides helpful tips for security your cyber world.
Dale M, Reviewer
I wish they'd gone into more reasons why and how the behavior and or recommendation were advisable.
Seems at times they were interested in having you do their recommendations because you could rather than explaining how not doing them could hurt your security. Even so, a good compilation of ideas and ways to protect yourself. I'll keep it as a reference.
Roger R, Educator
Guide to actions to protect us from cyber threats
I can not emphasize more the importance in our days to protect themselves from cyber attack. This book brings enormous value to our lifestyle, has explanations easy to understand and apply, with examples at every step that land the information. The authors do not overwhelm us with technical terms and we go hand in hand in a series of actions that ensure that you can implement your cybersecurity.
Within the content there is a plan to have a safe online experience, indications of how we can protect our home Wi-Fi network, a systematic guide to secure important financial information and to be able to monitor identity theft, for example in social media sites, including the identity of our children. There are many tactics in the book, from the best known to the most specialized, and I also loved an Action Guide with 18 steps to do immediately, a glossary and many resources mentioned throughout the book.
It is a good book to start learning and taking action, however we must constantly update, as thieves and hackers are always improving their methods of attack.
My gratitude to the Publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to review the book
Robert M, Educator
As a person who works with full time and teaches computers part time I was ready to read this and tell everyone this was another book to blow off. In reality I thought the book was well written and quite good in it's examples. many times are similar to what I use when I teach classes.
There was one part of the book that I felt was a little too technical for the average novice that I see as the one reading the book but I think that could be forgiven.
All in all, good book.
Janet P, Reviewer
Identity theft is rampant and even the smartest of us can become victims of it. This book, in two parts, helps us understand how and why we are vulnerable and what we can do to fix it.
I was really impressed with how the authors made it easy to understand the threats, how they happen and why we are vulnerable. All too often technical books, even those aimed at the general reader, have too much jargon, so the reader ends up confused instead of wanting to take action.
After reading the first part of the book, you'll want to take action. Then turn to the second part of the book, the Action Guide. There you will get step-by-step help to complete all these actions, including specific software recommendations.
I'm putting these into action right now.
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