Speaker A explains what's safe to do on coffee shop Wi-Fi: low-stakes stuff like Netflix is fine, but never access banking. Use a VPN or tether to your phone instead. For any account, use unique passwords managed by a password manager.
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One of the biggest enemies are ourselves. We may implement some cybersecurity protocol, maybe not. But then we go to Starbucks the next day, sit down, get on an open network and start playing around. And we just blew out all of our cybersecurity protection jumping on WI fi. Is that true? What's your recommendations in that? Should you ever get on open WI fi or not?
It's not a complicated answer, but I kind of put a dividing line because I will go to Starbucks and get on an open network. But when I go to Starbucks to get on an open network, I might be booking myself a flight somewhere. What I won't do is I won't open up Chase bank or bank of America and I'll use different randomized passwords for different things using a password manager. You know, I actually have a pretty basic one for Netflix because I don't care if my Netflix account gets hacked. Don't access sensitive information. When you're on a public WI FI network, an open network, what you can do is you can either hotspot from your phone or you can use a vpn.