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Four Tips To Adequately Handle Cyber Threat Prevention

Updated on: 13 April,2022 03:41 PM IST  |  Mumbai
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Four Tips To Adequately Handle Cyber Threat Prevention

There is quite a lot of attention to detail and overemphasis today placed on protecting your privacy and security as much as we possibly can in a world that continues to become more digitally and technologically and client all the time. Today, as we spend more energy and time online (India has 755 million users as an example), it is more and more obvious that not only are we putting more sensitive information into the ever-evolving landscape but we are also introducing an approach that is really geared more than ever towards having to protect ourselves more and more. It is an interesting paradox and it is one that continues to build rapidly with my mentor more and more overtime. The introduction of more exposure to possible ransomware and the like is a potent reminder that if we are going to delve further into rapid digitalisation, we need to be willing and able to protect ourselves. So, what are the four best tips to adequately handle cyber threat prevention?


 


Be smart with your digital presence


Of all the innovation that has been introduced, it is important to be smart with your digital presence. What that means is doing everything that you possibly can to protect yourself whether that means having different approaches online or making your social media accounts private and your access to bank apps and other emails and such heavily password-protected. Choosing to be selected with your digital presence means that you are very much aware of the fact that baseless online activity can result in really unhealthy and quite scary consequences and one of the best possible things that you can do to protect yourself in the digital era and beyond is to really focus on being smart with your presence online.

 

Install online security on all devices

There is a tremendous amount of value on installing online security on all the devices. From malware protection to password authentication and three-tier identification tactics to get into accounts, there is no shortage of online security measures in place today. Whether you have to pay for them or not is beside the point. If we are going to continue to spend more time online, then one of the only feasible ways to protect ourselves from cyber threats is to ensure that we are investing in quality online security that can be reliable and trusted even when things become more challenging.

 

Invest in being conscious with your online activity

Similar to being smart with your digital presence is being conscious with your online activity. Everything that you do on the internet stays whether you are deleted or not and so being conscious with every action that you take online is one of the biggest assets to your approach to protecting yourself in an exceedingly online landscape. Investing in being conscious of that activity allows you to not only be aware of what is happening with your online activity at any given time but it also means that you were paying attention if anything out of the norm were to pop up along the way.

 

Practice the habit of different passwords

Like never before, the importance of passwords is stronger. Practicing the habit of having a different password that is entirely unique on every single account may seem like a frustrating step that is not necessary, however something that is becoming more and more obvious all the time is that it is not only necessary but he continues to prove its value. If a cyber hacker is able to crack one purse word and all of them are similar then the likelihood of them being able to crack all of them significantly rises. Having a different password to everything is one of the greatest forms of self protection you can have online against potential cyber threats.

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