Protecting Your Online Accounts From Cyber Criminals (Sep 23)
Category: GDPR & Cyber | Duration: 1hr | Tag: VODSEFEIE23D3S4 | Type: Video | Course Level: Foundation | Speaker: Liam Lynch | Date: 07/09/2023 13:30
Course Details
The 2023 World Password Day global survey from BitWarden showed that 84% of respondents reuse a password on at least one site, with 11% doing so on more than 15 sites. Even more concerning is that 26% of those who reuse their passwords, have been using the same password for more than 10 years. With data breaches occurring on an almost daily basis, people’s credentials on various platforms are at risk of being discovered by cyber criminals who could then use those details to access other platforms, particularly where the password was the same or similar.
Accountants regularly store and manage valuable client data on different applications and sometimes on client’s own systems. If somebody used their Facebook password on the client system, that dramatically raises the risk for the client. So, it is important to understand how cyber criminals leverage data breaches and the passwords they discover and then realise that there are easy ways of improving this situation, including the latest innovation of passkeys.
Liam Lynch covers the following topics during this session:
- Discovering if your online accounts have been compromised
- Seeing how passwords can be uncovered
- Best practices for passwords
- Understanding the different types of authentication factors
- Embracing the secure future with passkeys
CPD Course Speaker
L2 Cyber Security Solutions
Liam Lynch
Liam has over 30 years of experience working in IT, originally as a programmer way back in the 80s before moving into networking, infrastructure and security in the 90s. He has worked with people at all levels and has the ability to explain scary technical topics and boring legal subjects in a language that most people can relate to and understand.
Liam founded L2 Cyber Security Solutions in 2016 and it's maxim is #SecuritySimplified. This matches Liam's desire to bring easy to comprehend, cyber security awareness to everyone. Liam specialises in helping micro, small and medium businesses, and charities, as they usually don't have the in-house IT or cyber security support which larger corporates do.
L2 Cyber Security offers up-to-date, fun and easy to follow cyber security awareness training and GDPR awareness training. Since the HSE incident in May 2021, our cyber security assessment service has been very popular. We can also help organisations plan and prepare for the worst with our business resiliency planning.
Liam founded L2 Cyber Security Solutions in 2016 and it's maxim is #SecuritySimplified. This matches Liam's desire to bring easy to comprehend, cyber security awareness to everyone. Liam specialises in helping micro, small and medium businesses, and charities, as they usually don't have the in-house IT or cyber security support which larger corporates do.
L2 Cyber Security offers up-to-date, fun and easy to follow cyber security awareness training and GDPR awareness training. Since the HSE incident in May 2021, our cyber security assessment service has been very popular. We can also help organisations plan and prepare for the worst with our business resiliency planning.