E-commerce (2008): How to Safeguard our personal and financial data?

As we know that data can be classified into few categories, such as personal, public, confidential, top-secret or other categories. The more sensitive the data, the more it needs to be protected. To avoid the important personal and financial data being stolen, the ways should be taken to safeg

uard our important data as at the following.

To ensure that we don’t fall prey to cyber fraud, we must set a password to protect our access, and such password must be long enough of numbers or letters and unique, so that it cannot be guessed by outsider and get access to the data.

Encryption key is the process of transforming information (plaintext) using an algorithm (cipher) to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge referred to as a key. It is similar to password and this can help prevent unintended disclosure even if the system has been compromised.

Beside that, we can install and update anti-virus programs and a firewall, to protect ourselves against Viruses and Trojan horses that may steal or modify the important data. Use legitimate anti-spyware program to scan the computer and remove any of spyware which hidden in software programs that affect the computer performance and give attackers to access to our data. In addition, to safeguard our top secret and sensitive information, we should use biometric system that identify a person by measurement of a biological characteristic, such as fingerprints, iris scanning, facial features or voice, all this scanning can be ensure that no unauthorized users to be access into our data or whatsoever.