How to secure your Laptop
Securing digital devices is crucial now a days, as the hackers are attacking the devices everyday either if it is a ransomware attack or a spyware attack. Everybody deserves privacy and personal space even from the persons close to us.
So, here we are going to share some steps you can take to secure your laptops/desktop computers from being used or spied on without your consent or knowledge.
Following are the some essential steps you need to follow in order to secure your laptop from hackers or other people that endanger your privacy.
1. Set Password:
2. Update Your Software:
Keep updating your software in order to stay secure as software companies are continuously fixing the bugs and loop holes that can make your laptop vulnerable and easy an target for the hackers to compromise. Also sometimes updates bring shiny features with them so its completely harmless to update your software. Remember if the software asks to download update from original website then use checksum to check if the file provided by the company is also the file you downloaded.
3. Backup Your Data:
Another way to secure your computer is to backup your data regularly. Its important that you backup all the important data on Cloud Storage or portable media such as Hard Disks, SSDs. This will prevent data loss in case your computer gets damaged or you are attacked by some Ransomware. Either way you will be secure from data loss.
4. Add An Antivirus:
Antivirus are essentials now a days in order protect your laptop/computer. As Windows is the most used Operating System on laptop computers, so it is also the most attacked Operating System. Antivirus scan and remove the potentially harmful programs and files. They use virus definitions in order to detect harmful programs so make sure you update the antivirus as soon as a new update drops in.
5. Add A Password Protected Screensaver:
Screensaver or lock screen is another way to secure your laptop computer. Use password log in for your account. Its a good practice to lock your computer whenever you leave. This prevents people from accessing your computer and your data remains safe.
6. Encrypt Your Hard Drive:
Encryption is also an important step to secure laptop computer. Data is new the currency of digital world, so need of securing it is a essential task. Encryption prevents data from being exposed even if gets stolen. Data is encrypted by some key of 256-bit prime number, to access the data you need that key to be converted back to original state. The key is unique which makes it impossible to decrypt if not with the appropriate key.
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