Tips to Lock Down Your Data

Lifehacker, a great “tips” specialist site, recently published a handy list: Top 10 Ways to Lock Down your Data. Their list is more relevant to consumers than business users, who have legal regulations to comply with, but is a great run-down of personal security tips.

Ask yourself, have you done these 10 things?

1. Use KeePass. Love KeePass. Be secure
2. Encrypt your data whole or piecemeal
3. Secure your wireless network
4. Theft-proof your laptop (and its files) (also use LoJack or Computrace!)
5. Boost your browsing and downloading privacy
6. Get smarter on security questions
7. Plan for the worst
8. Hide data inside files with steganography
9. Use virtual credit cards for iffy online buys
10. Wipe that iPhone (or BlackBerry) before trading in

Check out Lifehacker for the full details on these tips, and even the how-to’s on getting secure. Some great tips in there! One of the tips also led me to this witty article: “Workin’ at the Internet Cafe: Laptop Dilemma“.

And for more about Absolute Software’s Computrace laptop security solutions, click on the graphic below or go here.

And in news this week, a cluster of 200 PlayStation gaming systems, the PS3s, were used to hack SSL certificate. Read more here.