Cybersecurity expert and attorney Leeza Garber discusses important steps U.S. citizens can take to protect their assets, such as changing their passwords and being cautious when accessing websites.
Cybersecurity expert and attorney Leeza Garber joined “Mornings with Maria,” Thursday and suggested the U.S. needs to “be proactive” on protecting their assets during a possible cyberattack amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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LEEZA GARBER: The big scare is that we’re going to wake up and see all of our bank statements depleted, right? That’s a concern I keep hearing. It’s important to understand that as citizens, we can do our best to protect our assets. Many of our assets are online. If it’s connected to the Internet, there’s always the chance it can be hacked, but it’s important to, as you mentioned, change your password use best practices, which includes multifactor authentication. Be careful about how you’re accessing websites, what emails you’re clicking on, things like that.
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It’s also being proactive about what companies we use as well, and then in the larger scope, it’s making sure that as businesses, we’re prepping, we’re being aware of the fact that we could be hacked… it’s important to note that the federal government has thrown money at this issue. We are being proactive. There’s an amazing joint cyber defense collaborative that’s partnered the government and private agencies, including Amazon and Google, to threat share, to come together, to be proactive and put their best foot forward. So we’re certainly doing that. We are intelligence gathering as a country as well, just as Russia is too.
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Cybersecurity expert and attorney Leeza Garber provides insight into how U.S. citizens can protect their assets and bank accounts during a possible cyberattack amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
