Keep your retirement accounts secure
Each October National Cybersecurity Awareness Month focuses on raising awareness of the importance of cybersecurity. This month is a great time to do a security check on your retirement accounts.
Here are three tips that will help ensure that your accounts are safe:
- Use strong passwords and a password manager: Strong passwords are critical to protecting data. They are long, random, unique, and include all four character types (uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols).
Password managers are a powerful tool to help you create long, random, and unique passwords for each of your accounts. Plus, they make storing passwords and user IDs easy.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication (MFA): Enable multi-factor authentication on all your online accounts that offer it, especially email, social media, and financial accounts, and use authentication apps or hardware tokens for added security.
- Update software: Ensuring your software is up to date is the best way to make sure you have the latest security patches and updates on your devices. Install updates as soon as they become available.
And here’s another great tip that’s easy to do right now while you’re visiting the DRS website. If you haven’t already done so, set up your retirement accounts. If you haven’t done this yet, then someone who gets their hands on your information could set it up for themselves. If you have DCP, Plan 3 or JRA, you’ll also want to establish an account through the record keeper, even if you never plan to use it.
Find out more about keeping your accounts safe in the Account Security section of the DRS website.
