Basic Cyber Security Tips: What’s Your Role?
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Everyone has their own role in protecting their Sensitive Information and securing their systems or devices.
A basic awareness can help individuals to enhance their security without any requirement of huge investment or any security professional expert.
- Basic Cybersecurity Tips
- Back it up
- Keep a clean machine
- Share with care
- Get savvy about Wi-Fi hotspots
- Make a long Unique Passphrase
- Own your online presence
- Passphrases arent enough
- When in doubt throw it out
Make a Long Unique Passphrase
- Try to use strong and complex passphrases.
- A strength passphrase is a sentence that is at least 12 characters long.
- Positive sentences or phrases are more likely to be secure.
Keep a Clean Machine
- Keep all software on internet connected devices – including personal computers smartphones and tablets – current to reduce risk of infection from ransomware and malware.
- Keep all the devices configured to automatic update or to notify you on regular available updates. Keep a Clean Machine
When in Doubt Throw it Out
- The easiest way for cyber criminals to steal your information is phishy links in email tweets texts posts social media messages etc.
- Be aware of clicking links or downloading anything from an unknown sources.
Passphrases aren't enough
Always use 2-factor authentication or multi-factor authentication to stronger your security
- Security keys
- One-time codes
- Authentication apps Passphrases arent enough
Back it Up
- Protect your data by making an electronic copy and storing it safely.
- If device falls victim to ransomware or other cyber threats and you have a copy of your data then you will be able to restore the data from a backup.
- Use the 3-2- 1 rule as a guide to backing up your data: Keep at least three 3 copies of your data and store two 2 backup copies on different storage media with one 1 of them located offsite.
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