The Security Mentor

Are you tired of reading one newspaper story after another that all say that identity theft is a serious problem and that you should buy a shredder and check your credit report once a year?

William Murray of Trusecure, a fellow CISSP, wrote a bunch of really useful advice. His paper is at this link. He has advice for both consumers and for businesses that take credit cards.

The entire paper is interesting to security geeks but normal people may want to skip to "Recommendations for the Individual" and "Recommendations for Merchants". Some of the advice may surprise you. For example, he recommends online banking because you can check for suspicious activity daily and because it keeps sensitive material out of your physical mailbox. Something else you might not have thought of is to use a single-use credit card number whenever possible. Those are just excerpts, there's a lot more good advice there.