EZShield® Educates Close to Home About Protecting Your Social Identity
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EZShield VP of Marketing & Solution Strategy Laura Bruck presented "Protecting Your Social Identity" to the
Focusing on the 13 to 16-year-old audience and that age group's propensity to use social networks (81 percent use at least one), Bruck highlighted the potential to have personal information compromised on social media.
"This event provided a wonderful opportunity to encourage proactive personal security measures," Bruck said. "Considering this group will soon be part of the greatest identity theft risk group of ages 18 to 24, now is the time to teach them ways to protect their information."
Several youth members exemplified their social smarts indicating that they set their privacy settings to prevent anyone outside of their connections from viewing their posts. However, over half acknowledged that they posted their locations, especially when they travel, unknowingly allowing others to physically track them.
The presentation included a hands-on lesson in password security. Attendees enthusiastically took turns entering their passwords into a password strength-rating tool. All but a few people discovered their passwords could be hacked in as little as 0.0001 seconds. In sharp contrast, the tool estimated that one of the attendee's passwords was so strong that it would take 2,546,476,408,336 years to crack.
As part of the wrap-up, youth leaders pledged to share with others what they learned about protecting personal information. One attendee voiced a primary take away: "Passwords are easier to crack than you think." Overall, the event provided critical security information applicable to all ages.
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