![]() Using 3rd party DNS is also a great help, Cloudflare, Quad9, and OpenDNS Greatly increases your security at no cost and are fairly easy to set up on your router. When you use the web make sure you’re using an adblocker to avoid malicious advertisements that might lead you to a phishing site. Recognize the human error factor, humans make mistakes.Setup for the email account/s you use.Enable second-factor authentication on all your accounts, especially your chosen password manager.If you don’t like the idea of storing your passwords online look at offline options such as KeePass, password safe, or perfect paper passwords. ![]() In my opinion, the most important thing about a password manager is that it be zero knowledge, meaning that the company running the service your using has no way to decrypt the data you entrust them to store. There are likely many other good online options. Use a password manager and avoid reusing passwords across sites like the plague, side note: it is the plague. LastPass and 1password are a great starting point. ![]() This is how you increase the cost of an attack. The following is the collection of advice I wish I could have also given him but just did not have the time to, this is also advice I give to family members, coworkers, and people like you who stumble across my website. Realistically if someone can pay the “Cost” in either time or money to conduct the attack they can compromise your security." The “Cost” of attack is equal to the amount of either negligence or effort that you or an attacker must pay to destroy, disrupt, or disappear the protected asset. "Security is the art of protecting assets, knowledge or time in such a way that the “Cost” of destroying, disrupting, or disappearing them is insurmountably high. To best do that it’s important to have a working definition of what security means. Correctly thinking about security depends on what you are trying to protect, for most people at a minimum that means their own time, for Systems Administrators that means protecting the time of others as well. In the case of the man I met at Starbucks what he had lost was documents that he spends time writing, pictures he had spent time taking, bookmarks he had spent time finding, business data he had spent time working on, and a computer he now had to spend time getting fixed using money he had spent time earning. Digital security now must encompass a much wider practice security is now the art of protecting time. Having backups may not sound like a security strategy because most of the time when we think of security we think about keeping the bad guys out, in the day and age we live the paradigm of how to build a better digital moat has for the most part been dealt with and what we now need to turn to is how do we deal with threats already behind our gates. We had a short conversation about backups where the painfully obvious was stated and not much more. ![]() His laptop had been infected with ransomware and he, unfortunately, didn’t have a backup. The other day I was in Starbucks and overheard a local computer tech helping someone reinstall windows on their laptop, the tech left, and I started a conversation with the laptop owner.
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