Apr 1, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 28 segments
Most people think cybersecurity is complicated. MK Palmore disagrees. With 32 years in the federal government, two decades as an FBI special agent, and executive roles at both Google Cloud and Palo…
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So there, there's a lot to unpack there, and as much as I wanna dive right into the intense stuff at the end with the enterprise and the SMB, let's kinda slowly get every-out there.
We know that we have things that are being, be it WhatsApp or Signal, our own personal stuff with identity being stolen across the board.
The audience always g-gonna ask me, "What is the first thing I can do right now?" Like, okay, I get it, and you've done this on the exceptionally high level.
What is basic stuff that most people get wrong every single day when it comes to their data and their protection of what's going on in their world?
You know, uh, apps, uh, will oftentimes come to you with default settings that make them easy for you to utilize.
... and that ease of use is what the adversary relies upon in order to gain access to your digital footprint and your private information.
And so I would ask people to take that extra step, and that extra step is not hard.
It just simply means enabling things like multi-factor authentication in the applications that they use or the, the SaaS applications, the portals for which they gain access to.
People will deride things like SMS as the second factor for authentication, but some authentication is better than none at all.
And so I would, I would encourage people to, yes, utilize SMS if that's the only available, uh, resource that you have.
But there are a number of authenticator apps out here now that use a higher level of encryption and provide codes for you to gain access to, um, your email or applications, and that's probably at a baseline for consumers one of the best things that you could be doing is just simply doing the basics.
And then, um, if you wanna take a few extra steps, there are things like monitoring, uh, your background, your credit, all of those things.
You can actually set it up in, uh, Google so that if your personal results, uh, happen to show in Google, they will send you an email saying that your personal results, like your address, are showing up on this particular website, and you can go through a process to have that information removed.
Uh, and again, those-- these are simple things that everyone should be doing in order to, uh, reduce their exposure, uh, and decrease the risk of their digital, uh, privacy being violated.
So there, there's a lot to unpack there, and as much as I wanna dive right into the intense stuff at the end with the enterprise and the SMB, let's kinda slowly get every-out there.
We know that we have things that are being, be it WhatsApp or Signal, our own personal stuff with identity being stolen across the board.
The audience always g-gonna ask me, "What is the first thing I can do right now?" Like, okay, I get it, and you've done this on the exceptionally high level.
What is basic stuff that most people get wrong every single day when it comes to their data and their protection of what's going on in their world?
You know, uh, apps, uh, will oftentimes come to you with default settings that make them easy for you to utilize.
... and that ease of use is what the adversary relies upon in order to gain access to your digital footprint and your private information.
And so I would ask people to take that extra step, and that extra step is not hard.
It just simply means enabling things like multi-factor authentication in the applications that they use or the, the SaaS applications, the portals for which they gain access to.
People will deride things like SMS as the second factor for authentication, but some authentication is better than none at all.
And so I would, I would encourage people to, yes, utilize SMS if that's the only available, uh, resource that you have.
But there are a number of authenticator apps out here now that use a higher level of encryption and provide codes for you to gain access to, um, your email or applications, and that's probably at a baseline for consumers one of the best things that you could be doing is just simply doing the basics.
And then, um, if you wanna take a few extra steps, there are things like monitoring, uh, your background, your credit, all of those things.
You can actually set it up in, uh, Google so that if your personal results, uh, happen to show in Google, they will send you an email saying that your personal results, like your address, are showing up on this particular website, and you can go through a process to have that information removed.
Uh, and again, those-- these are simple things that everyone should be doing in order to, uh, reduce their exposure, uh, and decrease the risk of their digital, uh, privacy being violated.
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