How to safeguard our personal and financial data?

Internet is very common in nowadays. Every person need to use computer to complete their task or job everyday. They all rely on computer to save our personal data and through online financial services to do the financial transaction such as online payment, online banking to save time.

It is very convenient but internet is not a safe place especially for those people using online banking or payment. It is because hackers have the expertise and ability to intercept and do falsely when they using the information such as credit card numbers. So we need to take some prevention to increase internet security and decrease the probability of data being stolen. There are some suggestions stated in below:

1. Avoid using password that easy for memorize, use those password hardly to guess by other people. Beside that, don’t write down the password and carry it in your wallet. Use combination of numbers and letters if it possible
   
2. Install or use updated antispyware and antivirus software to protect. For example, Symantec, Norton and Avg antivirus are most popular software use by computer users. Its clean computer and protect personal information, financial data and etc.
   
3. Avoid accessing financial information in public. User must avoid logging in to check its own bank account or other sensitive personal data when using a free wireless connection that outside coffee shop, airports and other public places provided.
   
4. Biometric device. Biometric devices using some biometric identifier to access program, computers or rooms to safeguard our own personal and financial data. Those biometric devices include fingerprint scanners, hand geometry systems, face recognition systems, voice verification systems, signature verification systems and iris recognition systems. Advantages of using this method is the data won’t lose although it is being stolen.

Additional informations:
1) Six ways to safeguard your online assets
2) Keep your financial data safe online
3) http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST06-008.html
4) http://www.msisac.org/awareness/news/2007-03.cfm