An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
The National Cybersecurity Center (NCC), founded as a nonprofit in 2016 by a group of government agencies, universities, and private companies, provides educational and training resources to improve cyber security awareness nationwide.
The NCC now also offers a system to notify individual consumers of specific cybersecurity risks they may be facing and offers step by step guidance to help those consumers remediate and protect against those risks.
The NCC views individual assistance as part of an overall public safety program to reduce the growing threat of cyber crime. By providing individual assistance, the NCC closes a gap that the technology industry won’t invest in and that the government isn’t set up to address.
A consumer can enter an email address on the NCC homepage to search for security breaches for that email address and associated password.
If the NCC discovers any such breaches, they will list them and provide step by step guidance to resolve the potential vulnerabilities, for example giving instructions on exactly how to change a Gmail password and information about what makes a good password to guard against oassword theft.
Consumers can also register an email address to receive alerts about any breaches that may occur in the future.
The NCC also offers an AI chat service to provide consumers individual guidance about identifying and preventing cybersecurity attacks.
By the end of the year, NCC plans to offer additional services to alert subscribers about specific risks to a personal profile of internet services, such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and so on.
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