and social media that we’re
gonna ask? Because cyber crime
is big business for some.
And the goal is for you not to
be one of those victims.
How much control do you have
over your personal Internet
security and how prevalent
other crimes in the impact of
the FBI’s Internet Crime
Complaint Center keeps track
of such things. And for the
year 2021, there were 847 300
70th apples and 8 of the 47,376 reported cases of Internet
reported cases of Internet
fraud resulted in 6.9 billion
dollars in losses. Business
related email compromise
resulted in more than 2 billion
dollars in losses. So you can
see it could be a big problem
for those who aren’t vigilant.
So joining me this morning to
talk about what you need to
know, they defend vice
president, the College of
Healthcare Information Management executives. The
Management executives. The
acronym is CHIME. Good morning
to you. And coming in from the
folks out there, which I’m is
happy chime, as you said, is
the College of Health
Information Management
executives founded 30 years
ago.
>> By healthcare organizations
that were just starting to bring it into the hospital.
bring it into the hospital.
So it was the Sea Isles who
knew they had some things to do
around medical records and 30
years ago, cyber wasn’t a
thing. But as it has the need
has grown and health care as
well as other sectors. And
you’ve been recognized for your
expertise in this. The Baldrige Foundation Award for
Foundation Award for
Cybersecurity, which you’re
going to be receiving coming
up. They don’t get that too
many people. That’s a good
thing. Congratulations and
thank you. I appreciate I like
to think it’s a longevity award more than anything, though I
more than anything, though I
I’ve been doing cybersecurity
for 36 years and and how that
evolved through the years.
And we talk about some of the
things simple things we can do
to stay secure. For example,
you say that this sometimes
information people can get from
the email address alone.
Absolutely. I kind of the 3
themes that that Iowa strike and they’re not only for
and they’re not only for
businesses but there for
individuals as well. And the first thing is we allow it and
first thing is we allow it and
security to take care of our
data for It’s not just it and
security. It is your personal
issue, one that your data.
So we have to step up and take
responsibility for that. The other thing is it’s more
The other thing is it’s more
important now than ever.
We are so hyper connected
everyone is on the phone on up
and on computer and we connect
everything. We put data in
those systems. We store our
credit card, that vendors.
And yet we don’t think about where that data is going.
where that data is going.
And in the 3rd and I think it’s
probably the most important
thing and it’s a leap we
haven’t made in 2023 yet, but
but it really started happening in the in the late 90’s and
in the in the late 90’s and
certainly by 2000, our data,
our personal data has value
and we don’t treat it like it
has value. Every retailer we
connect to every bank. Every
site we go to understands the
value of our data, but we don’t we have to learn to protect it.
we have to learn to protect it.
Can it be as simple as
something that just strong
passwords and multi-factor
authentication or is a lot more
to that or do things starting
out could be very help that
they those would be very
helpful to start with a
multi-factor authentication.
Solves a lot of security issues. I’m guessing you don’t
issues. I’m guessing you don’t
ever get spam email or you
might want to ask or right?
Multi-factor can help reduce
that as well. And every time
you’re getting an e-mail that
is a potential vector connection. You click the wrong
connection. You click the wrong
link. You hit the wrong button
and all of a sudden somebody
has information your
information about you that you
didn’t intend for them to have
a and now days, children are
getting much more involved with
those kinds of devices. What
kinds of advice you give to
parents?
>> To help them keep the
children away from the kind of
challenge and great question.
And it really comes back to thinking about the value that
thinking about the value that
day then wants on its something
we don’t do. So one of the
things we see a lot parents are
giving their kids their iPhone
or their iPad to use that to
entertain him. But they forget
that on that I panned as their
user ID and their password and
their bank accounts and their
insurance information. And the
kid goes to a site that maybe
he shouldn’t be going to and
all of a sudden that
information can be transferred or hacked into. So we have to
or hacked into. So we have to
think about the day that we
have to think about the
controls on those devices.
One of the things I always
advise people, you’re timeout,
social media is know what the settings are on your phone.
settings are on your phone.
One of the things we found in
some research several years ago
as we sign up for an
application and we think that
app is only feeding data to
the location we signed up for.
Well, what we found in our research is that your iPhone or
research is that your iPhone or
your any cell phone has access
to operating system has access
to all that data and it will
ship it to up to 14 or 15 other
sites that we don’t know about
primarily marketing. But bad
guys can get in the middle of
all of that.
Okay. I’m going to stick
around. We’re going to be
little bit newsmakers action
telling this to Mark controlled
guys, go into a little bit
extra.
>> But what is your biggest frustration with people who
frustration with people who
just let their guards down
about this?
>> What I tell people is you
don’t leave your house on lock
in the morning. You don’t park
your car in the garage and not lock it. We need to think about
lock it. We need to think about
the value of our data. We think
there’s expensive things in
our house. We don’t want
someone to take our car, but
with our data, they can go buy cars and houses and hit us even
cars and houses and hit us even
harder. So think about your