Robert Siciliano explains cloud security basics to Neil Cavuto. Encrypt your files before uploading, use multi-factor authentication, rotate passwords regularly, and run antivirus software. A VPN and firewall add extra protection.
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Uh, in the meantime, let me put all of this this way. There is no class in the cloud. To her point, no matter who you think you are when it comes to this stuff, you just ain't. The cybersecurity expert Robert Siciliano, who says that, is because no one is safe. Anything you put up in the cloud is up for grabs. But you know, uh, Robert, here's the thing about our modern society. It's just, it's just easier to put it up there. It's easier if you travel around a lot. I travel a good deal, uh, that I don't have to cart a bunch of computers or something with me, no matter what I log on to, I can download that information. What do I do?
Yeah, all of my data is in the cloud. And the cloud is, you know, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail.
I would love to get all of your data because that's gotta have dirt on everybody, but go ahead.
So most people's data is in the cloud. You know, your bank is in the cloud, so to speak. Your email is the cloud. All of our data in one way, shape, or form is in the cloud. What does that mean to you? Well, what that means is, in the end, you don't have control over it when it leaves your device. As long as your device is connected to the internet, the device and all the data on it is still vulnerable as well, even in your own home office. So all the basics: antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-phishing, firewalls, you know, VPN on wireless connections. But encryption is a huge thing. Like, any file that you store in the cloud, if you can encrypt that file as you upload it—
What does that mean?
You have a key to open it up.
So encrypt a file while you upload it. What the hell are you talking about?
Basically, the files themselves that you upload are password protected. The files themselves are password protected. So let's say that the email provider is breached. Well, the files that you might have on there actually require a password to get access to them.
So as long as you're doing all that, how often do you then change those passwords? Like here at Fox, you could change— they must be telling us what, Navy, like every other week, change your password. They do. And everyone I try— God bless them. I mean, if you can crack this network, man, you better home run. But, but it better not even resemble anything you did back in 1998. But what do you do?
Every 3 months is really good. Every 6 months is fine. Every year at a minimum, you have to do that. And any cloud service that you upload your data to, you want multi-factor authentication. That basically means that a username and a password, but then you also get a text message as an extra one-time password. The The, these extra layers of password protection via multifactor generally will keep the bad guys out. Generally.
Yeah, but the bad guys, to your point, are getting so smart. Um, Robert, thank you very much.
