Thursday, February 5, 2009

How to safeguard our personal and financial data?

How do you safeguard your personal and financial data? Do you have proper way to protect your data? Today, computer and internet is very common for everyone and most of the people have rely on computer to save their data and use internet to do online transaction. Therefore, it is important for you to take measure to protect your data from loss, damage and misuse.

Below are some suggestions for you to safeguard your personal and financial data.
1. Install and update antispyware and antivirus programs
To protect your computer against viruses and Trojan Horses, you must install anti-virus software into your computer to identify and block viruses before they infect your computer. Once you install anti-virus software, it is important to keep it up to date.


2. Install a firewall
When anyone or anything can access your computer at any time, your computers is more susceptible to being attack. Firewall provides protection against outside attackers by shielding your computer from unnecessary internet traffic. Firewalls can be configured to block data from certain locations while allowing the relevant and necessary data through. They are especially important for those who use DSL or cable modem.

3. Passwords
Passwords is another way to safeguard your personal and financial data. Therefore, when choosing an access password, it should be a strong or pass-phrase password to protect your data. But, nowadays, most people use passwords based on their personal information which are easy to remember. However, that will not be too obvious for an attacker to guess. For additional safeguard, you can use different password for every account you access online. This way, if someone does find out your password for an account, he or she will not be able to access your other accounts with the same access password.

4. Avoid accessing financial information in public
Prevent logging on to check your bank balance or other private data when using a wireless access that provide by outside coffee shop or public. Although these systems are convenient but you do not know how sturdy their firewalls are.



5. Biometric fingerprint
A good security and powerful tools which are easier and convenient for you. Biometric fingerprint can be used to prevent unauthorized physical and logical access to factory, warehouse, office, laboratory, ATM machines, desktop PCs notebook PCs and any computer network. The benefits of biometric fingerprint are that it can’t be lost even stolen, it also wouldn’t be forgotten and it is with you all the time.

6. Only make purchases on trusted sites
You should make purchase on trusted sites or well-known online retailers. This is to avoid your personal and financial data remain safety and confidential throughout the process of online purchasing. Furthermore, regardless of which website you use, you should always look for the padlock icon on the bottom of your browser to verify that the page is safe.



7. Spam
Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages to your computer. Frequently, its work into your mail box and often from phishers, which contain with Trojan Horses (viruses) that can get into your computer and send your personal information back to their unsavoury creators. So, remember NEVER EVER respond to spam






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