{"id":3918,"date":"2019-03-26T16:07:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.passwordsafe.de\/2019\/03\/26\/5-steps-to-cover-up-your-digital-footprint\/"},"modified":"2021-12-20T16:10:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T16:10:19","slug":"5-steps-to-cover-up-your-digital-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.passwordsafe.com\/en\/blog\/5-steps-to-cover-up-your-digital-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Steps to Cover up your digital Footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1664px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><p><strong>Your company is only as secure as your employees are. According to recent studies, more than half of those surveyed use their passwords both privately and professionally. If your employees have been hacked, there is at least a 50:50 risk for your company. So what tips can you give your employees when it comes to security questions, social media, etc.?<\/strong><\/p> <h3>1. Weak point security Questions: Lead a double life<\/h3> <p>We don&#8217;t want to spoil your good manners. But sometimes security is a little off the truth. You know them: The annoying security questions that there is no way around. With a truthful answer, however, you have already opened a gate to your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.passwordsafe.com\/en\/security-data-protection\/\"><strong>private data<\/strong><\/a>. Thanks to social media and search engines like Google, your private data can be quickly hacked by brute force attacks. So here&#8217;s your chance to play James Bond for once. Get yourself a <strong>new<\/strong> (even if only digital) <strong>identity<\/strong>. And deliberately give the wrong answers.<\/p> <h3>2. Lying is not enough \u2013 How you can trick security questions<\/h3> <p>Sometimes it&#8217;s not enough just not, to tell the truth. For more data security, a bit of <strong>fantasy<\/strong> is also part of fibbing. Which town did you grow up in? Even if it wasn&#8217;t New York \u2013 your newsfeed on Facebook reveals that this is your secret dream city \u2013 and a pretty popular one indeed. Because humans always fall back on <strong>well-known information.<\/strong> Even if they seem to be invented. The name of your pet: You never had a pet? Now you owned the desired Golden Retriever named h\/k&lt;+Fo=Bg9. As with Password Safe, you can automatically generate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.passwordsafe.com\/en\/what-for-better-password-hygiene\/\"><strong>random answers<\/strong><\/a>, which are stored there encrypted. So simple, so brilliant.<\/p> <h3>3. Cover your tracks: Spring-clean of your data<\/h3> <p>Everyone leaves their mark on the net: Do you remember back then? MySpace, MSN Messenger, \u2026 The list is endless. All these are outdated services that were once very popular. And with many of these services your account still exists \u2013 including photos, a news feed, and so on. In addition, there are the still active accounts of you, which are already dusty as they are no longer visited. So, let&#8217;s get rid of it. <strong>Give up any unnecessary ballast<\/strong>. Your digital footprint will immediately be more manageable.<\/p> <h3>4. Secure important accounts with a second factor<\/h3> <p>Much better than security issues: Use additional hardware such as the <strong>Yubikey<\/strong> in combination with Password Safe. This<a href=\"https:\/\/www.passwordsafe.com\/en\/security-multi-factor-authentication\/\"> <strong>two-factor authentication<\/strong><\/a> will greatly reduce the risk of attack. The Yubico key works like a front door key: Once securely stored, it cannot be imitated and only you have access to your data!<\/p> <p>Read more about <strong>two-factor authentication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.passwordsafe.com\/en\/security-multi-factor-authentication\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p> <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help your employees to protect themselves better on the Internet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[372],"tags":[580,579,581,578,583,582,577],"class_list":["post-3918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorial-3","tag-digital-identity","tag-new-digital-identity","tag-private-data-en","tag-secure-important-accounts-with-a-second-factor","tag-security-questions-en","tag-two-factor-authentication-en","tag-your-digital-footprint"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>5 Steps to Cover up your digital Footprint &#8211; Password safe - Passwortverwaltung<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It is time to cover your digital identity! 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