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Guidelines That Can Keep You Safe From Data Breach

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The modern era of technology where has made your life easy and luxurious, it has also brought a variety of new problems and difficulties. Data loss is such kind of new problem that increasingly spreading problem among the computer users all around the globe. Hackers are one of the basic sources who steal the data and use it for their good or sell it further. There are many other kinds of data leakages, now the point is how remaining safe from such breaches? Here are a few guidelines given for your data security.
The first precaution you need to take is to equip your computer with reliable antivirus application. Many of the computer users keep antivirus software in the computer, but, they never update it. The cyber criminals are busy in finding new and improved ways of data breaches constantly that can get break the security for data protection. Older editions of this antivirus software are not efficient enough to fail every kind of attack of viruses. To tackle the new and updated versions of virus, antivirus applications are also needed to be updated on a regular basis.
Internal employees are known to be one of the biggest reasons of data leakage. In order to avoid such breaches, the companies need to restrict the access of the irrelevant or unwanted employees to the confidential data of the company. Only the employees who manage such data, or who need to have this information to perform their duty should only be given access to this data. If there are some employees that have switched to some other company, and still and have the key to access data can be proved to be disastrous, because, the confidential data which is important to you can be precious or priceless to your competitor. New employees should not be trusted straight away and given access to the secrets of the business.
To protect data from getting breach, it should be password protected with due diligence. A password should be a combination of upper and lower case letters with some digits and symbols. The company can also use security software that can lock folders. Hackers use advanced software that can guess the password through dictionary, which is why not a common word should be set as a password. The employees of the company ought to use a different log in and password for personal use and office use. Using the same ID and password can make the life easier of the cyber criminals. No matter how strong password you set, you should change it on a regular basis. According to the experts of Microsoft, a password must be changed within the span of 90 days; otherwise it can be exposed to the hackers.
It is the core responsibility of the company to educate or make its employees aware of the perils of data breach. Employees should aware of the security protocols of the data such as not responding to the tempting emails. There are emails sent by the hackers which may force even a wise person to click the links give in them. These emails can be about the lottery, a free feast by a known restaurant chain, or a dream job opportunity.
Taking some precautions and following the security protocols can keep you away from losing your precious data.
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Scott Louis is an E-marketing specialist at New Softwares.net, An Information Security Company that specializes in developing award winning data security software which can Folder Lock.

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