To secure your personal data, apply these 7 Secret Techniques.

Secure Personal Data Techniques

Secure Personal Data Techniques Your PC is everything for you. You use it to play entertainment, play games, watch videos and simultaneously you work hard on it and store important data. This data also includes your documents, music, and videos with personal and company files, reports, personal information, finance related documents. All these data are stored on your PC, but if your PC is connected to a network or the Internet then many users may not know this fact that this data can be public. Therefore, until you do not properly protect this data, then the danger of losing it due to the data being stolen always remains.

Only you are responsible for the security of your data, then why take the risk? Protect all your important data with harm and/or unauthorized access. Precautions are better than cure and that is why there are 7 ways to keep your personal data safe.

1) Protect Your Computer:

Protecting your personal computer can help reduce your risk of identity theft. If you are storing sensitive data on the PC, then at least the following requirements will have to be completed -

i) Lock Up Your PC:

Always set a strong password for access to your computer.

ii) Use Security Software:

Use Good Anti-Virus Software, anti-spyware software, and a firewall on the PC. Set these protections to update frequently.

Use the firewall to protect the store data on your computer. The firewall prevents any unwanted intrusion on your computer, as well as gives you the option to control which programs you want to have access to the Internet.

2) Encrypt Your Sensitive Data:

Encrypt Your Sensitive Data To protect your data, data encryption plays an important role. In the previous post, I had recommended TrueCrypt for this purpose (https://itkhoj.com/howto4.html), but you know that the support of this software has just stopped. Click here to check other alternate options of TrueCrypt.

There are also BitLocker Security Features for better data protection in Windows, which encrypts all data of Windows operating system volume and other removable drives. But blockers are only available for Ultimate Enterprise version of Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 10.

3) Often back up important data:

Often back up important data The most important thing to protect your data is that you regularly back up the data. You can use backup utility for basic backups, and Robocop is the best choice for this. Click here to learn more about Robocopy.

Apart from this, there are several third-party tools available that offer backup options.

But whatever program you use, it will be the most important that you get back up external hard drives, network drives, removable drives or even cloud.

4) Password protect a document:

Password protect a document In Microsoft Office, you can protect against password by preventing unauthorized use of files, Word, Excel or PowerPoint files and other users to open or edit them.

For Microsoft Office 2010 and earlier versions -

Click Microsoft Office Button -> Save As

Go to General Options in Tools.

Put the password in the Password to open the box.

Then click OK and then the Save button.

But keep in mind that there are many tools available on the internet to break such passwords easily.

5) Make a password protected Zip file:

You can compress and encrypt the sensible documents using Zip files WinZip or 7-zip software. For this, collect all the important files in the same folder and then compress this folder with a password.

Right click on the folder which you want to compress in Windows.

Select WinZip or 7-zip.

Select Encrypt or set a password.

But keep in mind that without the password you can not unzip the folder but you can see the files and folder names in it.

6) Secure wireless network:

Secure wireless network The terrestrial wired network is very difficult to steal your personal information, but WiFi networks always keep on targets for hackers because they have a network of physicsAccess is not required.

For this, you need to encrypt your wireless signal with WEP, WPA (WPA-Personal), and WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access version 2). Protecting your WiFi can be seen in the previous post for more information. (https://itkhoj.com/sec9.html)

7) Remove your old computer:

There are photos, videos, and documents, including personal address book on your PC, on your PC. Remove this information completely before selling or recycling a PC. Be cautious, only deleted data can be easily recovered through various applications available online. How To Delete Your Data From PC Completely