Guide to staying safe online, Understand your threat profile
Guide to staying safe online, Understand your threat profile:
in this post we Considering how much of our digital lives occurs
online - communications, financial transactions, entertainment, work,
education, to name a few -adopting even a few safe browsing practices can
lead to broad benefits. And this includes how we deal with email messages as
well, given how popular email is as a delivery mechanism for online attacks
using exploit kits and malware.
Guide to staying safe online:
Here, we
provide a strategic guide for staying safe online, outlining what you can do to
protect your data and privacy on the web, while remaining productive.
Understand your threat profile
With so many
threats looming, it’s tempting to take the strictest approach by locking
everything down, but the challenge is to balance precautions in a way that
keeps you productive. For example, to avoid malicious JavaScript, you could
just turn off JavaScript in your browser preferences -- except half the
Internet would become nearly impossible to use. Have you tried using Gmail
without JavaScript turned on? It isn’t pleasant.
We all use
the web differently, and our risks vary drastically, depending on where we are,
what we are doing, even what day it is. How security researchers stay safe
online is dramatically different from a consumer who emails, uses Facebook, and
watches Netflix. That in turn is different from a developer downloading new
tools and frequenting forums for advice.
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