My Digital Security Approaches
My own digital security is something that I have always liked to keep myself aware of along with the effects of what I could have hacked and other damaging effects this may have.
In Terms of my various social media platforms, which includes Instagram, Facebook, Twitter etc., I have most of them set to a two-factor authentication process. I additionally will change my passwords every 3-4 months to prevent potential hacking.
Similar with other applications like my email and Icloud I also change passwords periodically. I also have notifications for all the platforms and applications I have mentioned thus far for unusual activity for further prevention of privacy invasion or hackers.
I think it is important to note that I have recently picked up habits to not click on any links sent to me via social media unless I know it was from someone intentionally. I have seen many of my friends become victims of hacking via the strategy of sending links through other users within their social media networks and then proceed to hack them after clicking these links. This article further explains the ideas that I am talking about from social media.
Shifts for Further Digital Security
Although I believed the approaches I have been using above are effective, I now believe after further research from the resources given in Module 8, there is a lot more that seem critical that I implement.
One of the major recommendations from Professor Gilmore really opened my eyes. That being his strong emphasis to update software immediately if it is available. I have a poor habit of putting off software updates on basically all software I have on my computer, but after seeing the significant increase of hacking risk that poses, I hope to immediately shift that habit.
I also have been recently looking into the password managers we discussed within the following module because of the amount of passwords I am required to keep track of. I think attaining a password manager software would not only boost my security online, but also prevent me from having to constantly reset passwords I have forgot to write down.
Lastly, I plan to look further into encryption and ensuring that setting is turned on and in-use on all of my devices. After gaining more knowledge on encryption, it seems that is one of the most effective ways to protect your content and maintain my privacy.
I highly recommend others to look into some of these different approaches I now am more aware of after learning more about digital security and its importance.
