5 WAYS TO SECURE YOUR DATA

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5 WAYS TO SECURE YOUR DATA
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WHY SECURE YOUR DATA

• Protection of data is critical for most business
  and
• sometimes even for home computer users. It is
• potentially dangerous if the important and
  crucial
• information falls into the wrong hands. Though
• data can be lost due to variety of reasons bit
  losing
• it to malware infections or trackers can have
  much
• disastrous consequence.
• So let us look at the possible ways to secure our
• data from unauthorized accesses.

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1. Back up your data often

• Most important step to protect your data is to
• back it up regularly. There are plenty of ways to
  do
• it. If you have external USB hard drive you can
• back up to that drive using your computers built
• in backup features. You can even use Windows
• Backup, Time machine or connect the drive to the
• computer and use the backup tool. Also rather
• than storing your files on your computers hard
• drive, you can store them on Google Drive,
• Microsoft Onedrive.

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2. Protecting data by using EFS (Encrypting File
system)

• One solution to reduce the potential for stolen
• data is to encrypt sensitive files using
  Encrypting
• File System (EFS) to increase the security of
  your
• data. Encryption is the process of encoding
• messages or information in such a way that only
• authorized parties can read it. In order to use
  EFS,
• users must have Encrypting file system documents
• to encrypt and decrypt data. EFs users must have
• the permission from NTFS to modify the files.

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3. Using Public Key infrastructure

• A public key infrastructure is technical
  mechanisms
• and policies needed to create and revoke digital
• certificates and manage public-key encryption
• enabling users and computers to securely exchange
• data. A certificate authority issues certificates
  to
• individuals and groups after verifying their
  identity,
• Certificate based security is stronger. The
  person who
• can decrypt it is the holder of the public key
  which
• makes your data even more secure.

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4. Protecting through Internet Protocol Security

• IPsec provides security, integrity and
• confidentiality at packet processing layer of
• network communication. IPSec provides two types
• of security Authentication Header which
• authenticates the sender of data and
• Encapsulating Security Payload which
• authenticates and encrypts the data of the
  sender.

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5. Protecting log in information

• For various sites we use most of us have many
• user names and passwords. Hence there are
• management services with web interface which
• stores encrypted passwords in private accounts.
• So storing private data becomes easier and it is
• safe.