Security Planner: How to Protect Yourself

Susan Landau
Friday, December 15, 2017, 2:00 PM

We spend a lot of time on Lawfare describing the problems that result from data exfiltration, whether government policies should change as a result, etc. This post is a bit of a change; it's about technical ways to protect yourself–or more accurately, a link to such.

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We spend a lot of time on Lawfare describing the problems that result from data exfiltration, whether government policies should change as a result, etc. This post is a bit of a change; it's about technical ways to protect yourself–or more accurately, a link to such. The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab has put together a great free resource, Security Planner, a site that provides customized advice on how to securely configure your systems based on which devices you're using, what threats you believe you're facing and what risks you're worried about. Security Planner does things right: The system is easy to use, Citizen Lab is committed to updating the information as technology changes, and its interface is simple and clean. For “regular” users who don't have access to top-notch security advice, Security Planner is a great resource.

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Susan Landau

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Susan Landau is Professor of Cyber Security and Policy in Computer Science, Tufts University. Previously, as Bridge Professor of Cyber Security and Policy at The Fletcher School and School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Landau established an innovative MS degree in Cybersecurity and Public Policy joint between the schools. She has been a senior staff privacy analyst at Google, distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems, and faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Wesleyan University. She has served at various boards at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine and for several government agencies. She is the author or co-author of four books and numerous research papers. She has received the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award, shared with Steven Bellovin and Matt Blaze, and the American Mathematical Society's Bertrand Russell Prize.

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