Easy Prey19 Loka 2022

Protecting Your Identity with Patrick Glennon

Taking online quizzes can be fun and entertaining. Clicking on links in emails and DMs is just plain convenient. Unfortunately, both of these can put your identity at risk for theft. Today's guest is Patrick Glennon. Patrick has over 20 years of experience in banking and consumer identity protection with roles at companies including JP Morgan Chase, Core Logic, Arthur Anderson, and eBates. He has built software and infrastructure teams from the ground up, managed not only data center cloud migrations, but also managed transitions from legacy to modern engineering standards.

Show Notes:

[0:55] - Patrick shares his background and his current role at IdentityIQ.
[2:15] - We are putting more and more of our personal information online.
[4:06] - Credit card numbers can be used for more than purchasing things with your funds.
[6:06] - There is a wide variety of ways people can use your identity and every day there seem to be new ones.
[8:06] - When something happens once, the same information can be used across platforms and accounts.
[9:26] - Online quizzes can be used in surprising ways.
[10:52] - There is some organization to the ways scammers take information.
[14:56] - There's nothing we can do to prevent people from trying. But there are many things we can do to help prevent them from being successful.
[16:08] - Mix it up and use different security questions on different sites.
[17:48] - Don't click on links in emails or texts.
[19:09] - Shred personal mail and credit card offers from the mail.
[21:44] - Your information is probably out there.
[23:12] - There are so many ways people can get information and then have full access to tons of things.
[24:47] - If one thing is compromised, assume that everything is and take the steps to stop access.
[26:54] - Depending on what happens, it could take weeks or even months to have this resolved.
[28:57] - Time is a big loss for many victims, but there is also an emotional toll.
[30:53] - Move to authenticator apps rather than text message two factor authentication.
[32:12] - Young people will have a harder time recovering from identity theft.
[33:13] - You don't just want to be educated for your sake.

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