Blab session with Terry Wheeland
Simple strategies for protecting your data
- Lock your phone – minimally put a pin code on your phone. Our phones have become one of the most critical tools in our business make sure people cant access it to easily.
- Make sure you have the ability to lock and erase your phone remotely.
- 2 step verification – Most major cloud services do have 2 step authentication to login to a system
- 2 step verification is a process where not only will you log in by giving a password but you will also have to enter a code, either by getting a message from another device or by having separate codes offline.
- most times this only happens once every 30 days or everytime you access from a non verified device
- Password Protection – Even though it does seem like a major pain, setting a strong password can be a great deterrent from the undesirables.
- don’t use passwords like
- abc123
- 123456
- mickey
- football
- Use tools for creating unhackeable passwords
- Do not use the save password option in your browser
- don’t use passwords like
- Public networks –Real estate agents are always cost concios and public WIFIs are a great way to get business done quickly, be cautios when you are in these places there are all sorts of people that will gain access to your computer through these open networks
- do not do personal private business while in these places
- if you have to do business either
- use your phone as a wifi service
- have a vpn solution so you can lock down your internet acess.
- Back up your data – even when you do everything, there will be times your device breaks down. have a solution in place where your data is not only backed up but also easily accessable, you should have