We are living in the 21st century, and for a better tomorrow, our educational system demands our students to be wizards in the technology that the current world provides them. Both technology and knowledge are in their fingertips today, the internet provides them with what they want at any time. Even though it helps them in finding new horizons of knowledge, the way they approach them is most important. The increasing rate of cyber-attacks compels the teacher community to make the students aware of Cyber hygiene and Netiquette.
Cyber hygiene is as important as personal hygiene, cyber hygiene is the set of practises that should be followed by the users to keep their data safe, secure from theft and cyber-attacks. The common cyber hygiene problems faced by the tech world are following.
Data Loss: It is one of the most common issue’s students used to face. Loss of data is more vulnerable with the systems with poor data maintenance and management. Creating backup files or online synchronisation needs frequent updating to ensure maximum safety. Unfortunately, no one will spend time for data management until they lose some important data or misplace/replacing files with the original one.
Outdated Software’s: Software’s are pretty much useful in simplifying our daily task. As technology grows these software’s will be outdated and more vulnerable to security threats and malware. To prevent this, software companies will be releasing the latest version of software and security patches for its safe and sound use. Use of the latest version of software’s is also important to exploit the full potential of the software. This is because technology is changing at a rapid pace, which will help us to do more with the same tools.
Security breach: With the permeability of technology into social life, no one is safe from security threats. Hackers use various methods to penetrate a device through viruses, malware, spam, phishing and other related threats. Older security software’s and un-updated security patches may also result in the vulnerability of the devices.
With the changing threats, it is important to build a cybersecurity infrastructure that can prevent cybercriminals from breaching security, access various types of malware, and data theft. The best ways of overcoming these cyber-attacks are to practice cyber-hygiene, the best cyber –hygiene policies students can follow are
Password Protection: Protecting computers and other personal devices with encryption and its frequent updates is a good practice to stay safe from malicious attacks and to enhance cybersecurity. A complex password with multi-factor authentication adds a layer of security on your device. Be protected is the primary level of defence against cyber-attacks.
Privacy Management: With the advent of machine learning techniques, it is important to protect your privacy. Personal data is a threat with the potential to destroy a person's life. Managing your privacy by sharing limited access to data and permissions will keep you anonymous to the outside world. Be anonymous online!
Be updated: Keeping the operating system and software’s updated with the latest patches is necessary to mitigate the malicious software from taking advantage of the systems. Software updates always give you a better version of existing software, which can be more secure, fast and productive. Keeping up to date with the changing threat will help to prevent security breaches to a certain extent.
Limit Users: Limiting admin-level privileges to a third person will protect your system from malicious software installation. It will act as a passive layer of protection. Without admin privileges, even software cannot be fully functional to infect the syData backup will help you to protect your precious data from being hacked, corruption, and other related threats that could result in the loss of information. Sometimes, data loss can be happening from accidental saving of document or by a system crash. So, it is better to synchronise the data online or offline as per your preference. stem. Give access to a third party until unless there is a need!
Data Back-up: Data backup will help you to protect your precious data from being hacked, corruption, and other related threats that could result in the loss of information. Sometimes, data loss can be happening from accidental saving of document or by a system crash. So, it is better to synchronise the data online or offline as per your preference.
Employ a Cyber Security Framework: The security structure needs to Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover against cybersecurity events. Cybersecurity framework mainly used to protect systems and data from threats. A good security structure will define the overall security of a system.