Digital Safety Playbook
Brent GiffordDigital Safety Playbook is a practical newsletter that helps you protect your accounts, money, and identity with simple weekly checklists. No paranoia. No jargon. Just clear steps and real-world examples you can use in 10–20 minutes.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 24 | Founded | 6 months ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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Thirty Years Defending Banks Taught Me Who Actually Gets Hurt. It’s Not the Banks.
For more than thirty years I protected the assets and data of some of the largest financial institutions in the country. Here is what that taught me, and it is the thing almost nobody says out loud.
The banks recover. They have insurance,...
She Thought Incognito Mode Made Her Private. It Doesn’t. Here’s What Does.
It’s eleven at night. You’ve noticed something on your body that wasn’t there a month ago, and before you call anyone — before you say it out loud to another living person — you open an Incognito window and you type it into a search bar. Th...
She Thought Incognito Mode Made Her Private. It Doesn’t. Here’s What Does.
The difference between being private and feeling private — and the free tool that actually works.
DIGITAL SAFETY PLAYBOOK #14 · FREE POST · WEEK 14 (Aug 10, 2026)
Thirty Years Defending Banks Taught Me Who Actually Gets Hurt. It’s Not the Banks.
DIGITAL SAFETY PLAYBOOK
Yes — a security guy posting a family photo. That’s deliberate, and it’s the whole reason this exists. More on where I draw that line in a future issue.
If you’re new here, welcome. This post exists to tell you, in...
He Used the Airport Wi-Fi. Someone Else Was Watching.
What happens on public Wi-Fi and the one-tap fix that keeps your data private.
DIGITAL SAFETY PLAYBOOK #13 · FREE POST · WEEK 13 (Aug 3, 2026)
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30-year CIO/CISO. Two newsletters: the Digital Safety Playbook — plain-English online safety for everyday people (scams, fake stores, protecting your accounts and family) — and the CIO & CISO Executive Brief, governance for security leaders.
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