How To Safeguard Our Personal and Finaicial Data?

Performance of computer systems and networking have becoming more advance nowadays. It allows corporate to record, store and retrieve huge amounts of data faster and more efficiently than ever before. However, these capabilities have raised the concerns about the privacy of individuals in large networked information technology environments as online threats increased. There are several ways to safeguard our personal and financial data from network.

Firstly, we can download or purchase some software to guard against online threats in order to protect our computer from hackers and spyware. They are easily acquired either from the internet or from the local computer shops. Thus, it will be convenient for all the users to acquire. For examples of those software are Norton Antivirus, McAfee VirusScan, avast!, Girsoft AVG, NOD (Eset) and Spyware Terminator.


Beside that, we should never post our personal information in the chat rooms or on websites as well as enter full information in the online registration forms. This is because it can make you a target for identity theft, stalking or even harassment. In addition, we should never use E-mail or unsecured instant massage(IM) to transmit confidential information because E-mail and free instant massage communications are easily intercepted. Hence, it is not a secure process for transmitting personal information.


Then, a strong financial software password is also one of the methods to improve security of our personal and financial information privacy. A password should not contain personal information and change it constantly. It should be combination of numbers and alphabet. In addition, we should dispose our confidential information properly. It is recommended to dispose the materials in electronic formats (on CD or computer) so the information cannot retrieve by others.

Next, we should never reply to an E-mail, pop-up message that asks for personal or financial information in order to avoid phishing scams. Social engineers often use phishing to impersonate well-known banks, online retailers or credit card companies. They use fraudulent E-mails and websites to fool recipients into divulging personal financial data such as credit card numbers, account passwords and social security numbers.

In nutshell, it is advisable that we should protect or safeguard our personal and financial data properly. No matter how sophisticated the Information Technology, we can never be a foolproof!