Sunday 6 August 2017
WHY STAY SECURE?
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| STAY SECURE |
Can you read people’s inner creativity? Perhaps No. Therefore, people with diverse interests enter Google to keep abreast on emerging trends. Nonetheless, it’s this craze for innovating, imagining or even duplicating information that keeps the audience searching for their computer /technical needs.
But how do we know how secure we are? So, a trusted or original details needs to be shown. This is similar to keeping the doors open to your open office, forgetting to lock after leaving the office premises. People with varied intentions visit the website.
Occasionally, someone with a malicious intent could popup. Therefore, it’s advisable to follow the below criteria for safe access and use of the websites:
· Stay Updated. Staying updated with basics of internet could save you on exposing risks of data loss and sharing. Though some information may be too technical yet, the websites like The Hacker News could help you stay updated on hacking.
· Toughen your access control. Admin Levels could be ideal sources of creeping hackers. Beware from such users. Hence, it’s advised to change the names and passwords that cannot be guessed. Limit your log in attempts, even with password resets, the hackers need less than an hour to crack into the websites.
· Update everything. Updating everything seems expensive, yet the effort is worthwhile. By not installing updates, you invite open fronts to risks.
· Logins expire after a short period of inactivity.
· Passwords are changed frequently and not written down.
· All devices plugged into the network are scanned for malware each time they are attached.
· Installation of Firewalls.
· Hide Admin pages.
· Limit File Uploads.
· Use SSL.
· Remove Form Auto-fill.
· Back up frequently.
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