Ten Commandments of Online Security
By Shailendra Sial
Although I am working in IT field yet I am bit apprehensive when it comes to transact online. My mother always advises me not to carry out monetary transactions online as there are rampant cases of online frauds. I am well aware of her fears but still I carry out the transactions as they are effortless and very easy. Moreover, there is relatively less loss of cognitive energy when compared to the transaction to be carried out in the physical world.
Although the major fear involved in the online transaction is the loss of money there are other things which need protection, like identity theftm which constitutes a major portion of online theft. The online thieves are everywhere and are looking for anything which can be used or sold. Therefore, in order to avoid it or minimize it (we can't be foolproof) we need to follow some simple steps which will ensure better safety for us and better surfing experience too. Before I enlist the rules I follow to be on the safer side I would like to ask what are we protecting online? Is it our content, money, software or any other kind of intellectual property? No. Though we are protecting it we can do it if we can protect our user name and password. Yes, the most important thing is the login credential of an individual. If we are successful in protecting it then everything else will automatically be protected. I think now I am absolutely clear. So let us start with the rules.
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