{"id":9939,"date":"2026-07-20T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/financial-planning-roundup-help-wanted-technical-editor\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:00:11","slug":"financial-planning-roundup-help-wanted-technical-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/financial-planning-roundup-help-wanted-technical-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Planning Roundup: Help Wanted (Technical Editor)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I find myself coming back to the FBI\u2019s cybercrime stats<\/a> over and over, because they\u2019re just mind-blowing. Over the last decade (2015-2025), annual losses to cybercrime for people age 60+ grew by an annualized rate of 39%.<\/p>\n

For comparison, NVIDIA\u2019s annual revenue also grew by 39% annualized from 2015-2025. And over that time NVIDIA went from being a company most people hadn\u2019t heard of to being the largest or second largest company in the world. (It\u2019s a tight race with Apple at the moment.)<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s safe to say that cybercrime is a growth industry in the US right now. (It has been growing rapidly with victims under age 60 as well, just not as<\/em> rapidly.)<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been writing about the topic here on the blog this year, corresponding with readers, and discussing the topic with clients. (I also picked up a few cybersecurity-related certifications along the way, so that I could speak and write about it more intelligently.)<\/p>\n

And after learning more about it and discussing it with so many people, I\u2019m pretty firmly convinced that cybersecurity should be considered another core area of personal finance \u2014 no different from insurance planning, for instance. To spend decades working, saving, and investing, only to then leave the proverbial doors wide open to would-be thieves makes no sense. (And, just like with dangerous gaps in insurance coverage, most people with dangerous cybersecurity gaps aren\u2019t doing it intentionally.)<\/p>\n

Within the personal finance realm though, most of what you\u2019ll see written about cybersecurity and fraud prevention is essentially a) telling the reader to freeze their credit and b) descriptions of types of scams. To be clear, it is<\/em> a good idea to freeze your credit. And it is<\/em> valuable to be aware of the common types of scams. But the reality is that \u201cdon\u2019t fall for scams\u201d is not a sufficient cybersecurity policy. A policy that relies on always getting it right, every time, your whole life, is simply not good enough.<\/p>\n

To that end,\u00a0I\u2019ve been working on a book (current working title: A CPA\u2019s Guide to Cybersecurity: How to (Hopefully) Not Get Hacked or Lose Your Financial Accounts to Fraud<\/em>).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not finished yet, but it\u2019s getting closer and closer. It\u2019s at the stage where <\/strong>I could use the assistance of somebody who works in cybersecurity, who could serve as technical editor.<\/strong> If that\u2019s something you\u2019d be open to doing, please get in touch.<\/p>\n

Update: thank you to everybody who got in touch! I have found multiple people to provide their expertise as technical editors.<\/p>\n

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