“Cashews are for rich people.”
That’s a fallacy from my youth, along with thinking quicksand, snakebites, scorpions, and black widow spiders are actual daily perils.
🐍🕷️ 🦂
On the flip side – due to my father’s job, certain months of the year, we ate bucketsful of morel mushrooms many nights for dinner. So that seemed a given for adulthood.🍄
Our perspectives shift as we experience and learn more as to what’s real and where to focus.
Time now to understand that how we must interact with the Internet has changed in the last 20 years.
Use evolving technologies – like #generativeAI – intentionally. Know their capabilities, pitfalls, and risks.
Older technologies, too – email. #Fraud is easier and easier, spam and #scam.
Mind your passwords and multifactor authentication as if they were good manners.
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month – the month each year to focus on how and why to secure your data and focus your actions.
Get ahead of it and start now, super small organizations. Microbusinesses. Solopreneurs. Startups. Growing organizations of all sizes.
It’s a fallacy to believe things haven’t morphed/changed since the Internet was a child.
Scammers’ actions have mushroomed.
Promises in scam emails are as flimsy as quicksand.
(Help me out with scorpions)
So the morel of the story: Don’t be lax and enable fraudsters to cashew unaware.
Food for thought.
