What is Cyber Security ?

Cyber security is the practice of protecting the data over the internet. For example you use many website, social networking site and many more here your data like username, phone no, email and password are stored have you ever wondered that if this username and password are leaked then how much problem you will face so it is always required to secure our data and credential over internet though password is their but it is not enough to secure the data.

There are various ways to protect ourselves online some of these ways are:

Do not keep your personal information on social media profile: Avoid keeping your personal information like phone no, children age, address to your social media profile as it help hackers to collect more information about you and make eaiser to make fraud with you.

Keep unique password: Many of use the password that is easy to remember password. But in online world we need to secure our data with strong password.The password should be stong & unique but also easy to remember.It is always recommended to use the Uppercase lowercase character in a password also the number and symbols.

Dont reply to phising emails: We should not reply to the spam emails because as if we reply to the spam emails the hackers get our pesonal information. we should always delete those spam emails

Keep your communication network secure: Secure Wi-Fi connecion with a strong password so that the hackers in the local area cannot use your connection to carry out malicious activity

Avoid using public Wi-Fi: Hackers target to user using public wifi they uses the wifi network that your are using to see your activity and your data is not secure.

Check for https://: Before entering payment details into any website, check the webaddress has an 's'- which stands for secure- after the http. If it does not then do not use it.

Moniter the post you get online: Beaware of anything suspicious in the mail, like pre-approved credit cards that you have not applied and other money related offers.

Installing antivirus: It is recommended to have the antivirus on our device(mobile, computer) because it protects from the virus and their transmisson, block spam and ads, Defense against hackers and data thieves, protects yor data and files etc.

Keep security updates, up-to-date: It is neccessary to have your security update up-to-date because it prevents the device from vulnerabilities from being exploited.All the software must be kept up to date.

Using two-factor authentication whenever possible: It is important to have two factor of authentication because it secure our data more strongly. When you set the two factor authentication in your any account then when someone login then the login is verified through OTP(One Time Password) or email.