Question

(Cyber security)

What are your tips for protecting yourself against identity theft? Provide relevant examples to support your suggestions?

Please provide your own words. No copy from the internet. 150 to 200 words.

Answer 1

Answer)
Identity theft is the issue in the regarding privacy when an attacker attacks and steals the identity a person using which he can use the name for gaining something financial or personal or obtain some financial or other details which are private to the person and use those details for his benefit in any other way. Thus this kind of theft leaves the genuine person in jeopardy and many a time many kinds of problems occur with him financially and personally.
There are some tips which can be shared for protecting yourself against identity theft:
Keep your private and personal information safe and secure and do not share those openly.
Be discreet about your personal matters in the online and offline worlds.
Be alert about frauds and hoaxes and thus stay away from shady websites and applications.
Use strong passwords and multi-factor authentications.
Regularly perform checks of your financial and personal accounts.

For example, using multi-factor authentication such as 2-factor authentication is a must for the security and privacy of the person to prevail. Two-factor authentication can simply be a combination of a password, and a one-time password which can be received on the mobile phone. Thus even if the attacker knows the password, he cannot know the PIN and thus cannot log in to a system even if he knows the password. Thus strong passwords, multi-factor authentications, maintaining secrecy should be done by the people to stay safe from the identity theft and associated attacks.