Week4: How to safeguard our personal and financial data

Nowadays, technology has become more and more important in our life. People use the computer systems and networking to record, store and retrieve their personal and financial data. This advanced technology has made the data processing faster and efficiently. However, there are many unauthorized people are trying to hack into the system and steal the private information. In order to avoid private information being stolen, we have to safeguard our personal data.

There are some of the ways to safeguard our personal and financial data:
Firstly, we can use password. Password is the most popular and traditional method that used to protect our account. However, we should avoid using the password that easy to guess by people such as birth date, phone number, family name and so on, and we should never try to disclose our personal information to anyone.

Secondly, when the financial data is transmitted from one location to another, we should encrypt the information before send it out. This is a secure ways to protect our data from stolen by others, because the outsiders are unable to read the encrypted message, only you and the party who received your message can read through the information.

Online-shopping is getting more and more famous today, before you decide to buy something online, users have to login to their registered account to make an order; registered account contains of all the user’s personal and financial information, therefore, users must remember to log out their personal account after using it in order to avoid other people misuse of your private data.

Besides that, we also should protect the personal and financial data that store in our computer. We can use many tools to safeguard our computer information such as firewalls, anti-virus software, antispyware and etc. These security tools will help to prevent any unauthorized people to hack into our computer system.

Also, we should keep our credit cards and ATM cards properly. Check clearly to ensure that it is always with you. If you realized that your personal cards are disappear, must make report to polis and the related bank immediately to cancel off your service, this is to avoid the other people misuse your account money.

There still have many ways to protect our personal and financial data. We should work together to protect our private information so that can decrease the magnitude of harm which resulting from loss, misuse and unauthorized access.

~~written by siew wan~~