Keep Your Accounts and Identity Safe With This Cybersecurity Checklist

Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business Insider, PCWorld, How-To Geek, Zapier, StorageReview and many other leading outlets. Known for translating complex topics into clear, actionable insights, his articles have been read more than 100 million times worldwide.

Anyone can clean up the easy stuff. Delete the apps you never needed, unsubscribe from the newsletters you definitely didn't read and maybe trim down your inbox. That's all fine, but another item worth a hard look is your security setup. 

It hasn't been gathering dust for years, has it?

The past 12 months have been a festival of data leaks and technologically advanced scams. Even if nothing strange has happened to you (yet), your information is already floating around in enough places ...