I work at a bank outside of Pajama Mommy and working there has taught me a lot of great things about security and how to be more secure with my website, my home computer and life all together.
If your website is anything like mine, you’re earning income from it. Well with any income you’d like to protect it as much as you can especially in these harsher times. So I’ve taken the top five things I’ve learned about how to be more secure with my websites and computer that will help you online and offline.
1. Change passwords regularly. - This is passwords for everything some people use universal passwords to make their life easier.. thats fine and dandy but remember you want to change your passwords at least every 3 months to maximize security. Try thinking of longer passwords with either special characters or random words people wouldn’t associate with you. Such as corn15$65 or snowflake58964. I mean just choose random things. Don’t keep chosing the same sets of numbers if the numbers mean something to you then its easier for someone to guess.
Windows has a calender that can prompt you when its time to change your passwords. Choose a different day every 3 months. Dont change it the 5th every3 months. Try the 21st, then the 7th etc.
2. Add passwords to all your accounts. For my cellphone I call in and have set up passwords, you can do the same thing for credit cards and other bills alike. This prevents someone from adding in other lines or your children who may want to get more minutes and know enough to get into the account but may not know the password you set up. You can set it up as a word or a series of digits. I choose 4 digits that have nothing to do with birthdays, anniversaries or social security numbers.
3. For websites who have multiple users, make sure you stay up on the users see who is inactive and reduce their security settings, have them change their passwords as frequently or assign them hard to guess passwords. I prefer to assign only because I know its secure and if anything happens I have the passwords.
4. Keep all personal and secure information on a zip disk, or the new techno version..a usb drive. Back in the day we had something called a zip disk which was similiar to a external hard drive. But now you can write them to discs and put them on usb drives. I highly recommend it. However make sure you clean it out regularly of useless things.
5. Back up everything. You want to back up all your files from the computer, passwords, websites etc on to either a external usb drive or a disc. You may have too much stuff to back up on to a disc so invest in a heavy duty drive. I do not recommend using a back up hard drive only because it can be damaged. I like to keep backups of backups just incase. Since, heaven help us but disasters can happen. You may want to keep backups in something such as a safety deposit box or outside of your house incase there is an incident like Katrina, or a home theft.
If your website is anything like mine, you’re earning income from it. Well with any income you’d like to protect it as much as you can especially in these harsher times. So I’ve taken the top five things I’ve learned about how to be more secure with my websites and computer that will help you online and offline.
1. Change passwords regularly. - This is passwords for everything some people use universal passwords to make their life easier.. thats fine and dandy but remember you want to change your passwords at least every 3 months to maximize security. Try thinking of longer passwords with either special characters or random words people wouldn’t associate with you. Such as corn15$65 or snowflake58964. I mean just choose random things. Don’t keep chosing the same sets of numbers if the numbers mean something to you then its easier for someone to guess.
Windows has a calender that can prompt you when its time to change your passwords. Choose a different day every 3 months. Dont change it the 5th every3 months. Try the 21st, then the 7th etc.
2. Add passwords to all your accounts. For my cellphone I call in and have set up passwords, you can do the same thing for credit cards and other bills alike. This prevents someone from adding in other lines or your children who may want to get more minutes and know enough to get into the account but may not know the password you set up. You can set it up as a word or a series of digits. I choose 4 digits that have nothing to do with birthdays, anniversaries or social security numbers.
3. For websites who have multiple users, make sure you stay up on the users see who is inactive and reduce their security settings, have them change their passwords as frequently or assign them hard to guess passwords. I prefer to assign only because I know its secure and if anything happens I have the passwords.
4. Keep all personal and secure information on a zip disk, or the new techno version..a usb drive. Back in the day we had something called a zip disk which was similiar to a external hard drive. But now you can write them to discs and put them on usb drives. I highly recommend it. However make sure you clean it out regularly of useless things.
5. Back up everything. You want to back up all your files from the computer, passwords, websites etc on to either a external usb drive or a disc. You may have too much stuff to back up on to a disc so invest in a heavy duty drive. I do not recommend using a back up hard drive only because it can be damaged. I like to keep backups of backups just incase. Since, heaven help us but disasters can happen. You may want to keep backups in something such as a safety deposit box or outside of your house incase there is an incident like Katrina, or a home theft.