Cybersecurity Best Practice: Keep Your University and Personal Digital Identities Separate

Your UC Davis account is connected to a large university and can be a target for cybercriminals. Using that account for personal activities can put more than university information at risk if your account is ever compromised.

Keep your university and personal digital lives separate whenever possible. It’s a simple way to help protect both your UC Davis information and your own.

A few good habits:

• Use your UC Davis account for university business and a personal email account for shopping, banking, social media, subscriptions and other personal activities.
• Use different passwords for your UC Davis and personal accounts. Never reuse your UC Davis password elsewhere.
• Keep UC Davis files in approved university services and personal files in your personal accounts.
• If you use the same device for work, school and personal activities, separate browser profiles can help keep accounts and information from getting mixed together.
• Before saving, sharing or uploading information, take a moment to check which account you’re using.

Keep your university and personal presences separate. Separation helps protect both.