How To Safeguard Our Personal And Financial Data

Nowadays, Internet is a public network of nearly 50,000 networks connecting millions of computers throughout the world. When we register to become a member of this website, we need to fill in some personal information. The information is including name, e-mail address, password, telephone and others.If online purchase, the company will record consumer information records such as names, addresses, phone numbers, bank and credit card account numbers and et-cetera.

Everyone who uses the computer will mostly keep their personal data and financial data in the computer. This is because many data can be stored inside the computer easily. However, this important data might be stolen by others (hackers) when the person surfs the internet by using the computer. Besides that, anyone can easily get access to the computer and knew the important data if the computer has no any security.

Here are a few approaches on how to safeguard our personal and financial data:

1) Do not reveal any personal information or particularly passwords to anyone. After using any of the Financial Data Center or member services, must remember to log out properly before leaving the Financial Data Center.

2) Securing data through non-repudiation. It ensures that a party in the dispute cannot refute a transaction that has occured. This is necessary especially to the business people.

3) Installing a firewall. It can also safeguard the computer from being hacked and important data being stolen. Firewall should be installed if the user will surf the internet quite often.

4) Keep credit cards to a minimum. Only keep the ones you actually use and destroy any that you no longer use by shredding them.

5) Avoid using passwords that are easy for someone to guess such as the name of your favorite pet, your date of birth, your name and others. Never write this information down and never carry it in your wallet or briefcase.

Above are some ways for safeguarding our important data. It is very essential so that our important data would not leak away. Prevention is better than cure. Therefore it is better to safeguard our data before it is being stolen.


References:

- http://amazingcommerce.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/how-to-safeguard-our-personal-and-financial-data/
- http://www.msisac.org/awareness/news/2007-03.cfm


Prepared By : Lee Boon Keat