How to safeguard our personal and financial data?

Stealing of personal information or loosing information have become a major problem among computer savvy. Thus, it is significant for us to concern about the security of our personal and financial data.

Basically, there are many effective ways to safeguard our data. Mainly, by using password protected screen savers and changing password on a regular basis which recommended at least 90 days. Moreover, shall avoid using obvious password that someone easy to guess, like your birthday.


Besides that, floppy disks, CDs and computer hardware that contain personal and financial data, should be deleted or stored in a secure area until destroyed and disposed of. Thus, shall backup the data before discarding them.


By using firewalls, anti-spyware and anti-virus software also enable to safeguard the data from being stolen. It must regularly check to make sure that virus definitions and anti-spyware are up-to-date. Perform frequent scans on computer to help detect viruses. In addition, use encryption software to keep unauthorized people from reading your data.


Last but not the least, separate user accounts should be set up for every person using the same computer, so they will only have access to what is available to them under their own name and passwords.