Tech Hygiene

You see the word hygiene and you most likely think of washing hands, taking showers, cleaning the kitchen, and all the things that come with good or bad hygiene. I think most people would think if you have bad hygiene, you’re more likely to get sick. I see the same in the world of tech. The worse the hygiene, the more at risk you are for scams and fraudsters to take advantage of you and your information. And in the tech world, information is king. I want to introduce the soap, scrubber, and sanitiser to your tech world to keep you safe from the virtual nasties.

Now, through a series of blog posts over the coming weeks, months, and years, we will explore each aspect of your tech hygiene. Don’t worry, the basics will be covered quickly.

So, our main pillars of the tech hygiene will be passwords, cyber security, and social engineering avoidance.

Passwords:

We are all guilty of mismanaging our passwords, and in this post, we will explore ways to help ourselves manage them easier and how we can get safer about our existing passwords. We get to throw away the password book and let our tech manage it for us! Don’t worry, I’m here to help along the way.

Cyber security:

Having the right cyber security for our needs is really important to catch threats before they arise. This option isn’t a fix-all for everything. It does, however, send us in the right direction to keep us protected. Sometimes the challenge is finding the one that protects you and your household without slowing you down. Contact us.

Social engineering avoidance:

This blog coming up is usually the most important of them all. This is where scammers can get you to hand over information ‘willingly’ using all the tactics in the playbook of fear, intimidation, manipulation, and panic. The smartest of people get caught out by social engineering because it taps into the emotional centres of your brain, and logic goes out the window.

Stay tuned for the coming blog posts to begin to give you insights into what we can do to help and maybe even giving the access to help yourself have a little more tech hygiene. Feel free to contact us for any questions or advice on how we can best assist you.