Sharing your email address publicly, or with distant connections, and allowing your email to be exported, increases your risk of phishing attacks, invasive advertising, and unsolicited emails. However, limiting email visibility may also affect people's ability to contact you for career opportunities.

Turn off various LinkedIn notifications to declutter your inbox and reduce the number of messages clamoring for your attention. If you're actively job searching or hiring, you may want to keep some of these notification settings on.

Being able to see when you are active on the platform allows harassers and stalkers to time their threatening messages more effectively, increasing the possibility that they can disrupt your day.

Removing the ability for people to find your LinkedIn profile via phone number or email address makes it harder for scammers or identity thieves to find your personal information and build fake profiles with your data or otherwise misappropriate it for fraudulent use.

"Represent Company" proactively features your account in search results or sponsored ads about your employer. If your company is being targeted in a hiring scam, you are more likely to be impersonated to defraud others as a representative of the company.

Easily seeing your professional network lets attackers use information in your profile to make phishing or impersonation campaigns more realistic. However, some people like this feature for networking — for example, so others can see who they are connected with to make introductions. Even if you turn off this feature, people will still be able to see your mutual connections.

Sharing your location on LinkedIn can be risky — even the smallest location clues can make it easier to find your specific address and office addresses are often public. However, there are tradeoffs to removing your current location: you may reduce your visibility for professional opportunities, like jobs or networking events.

It can be particularly damaging to lose control of your LinkedIn account and thus your profile on the default professional platform. Two-factor authentication is an essential part of keeping your account secure.