Threats to Data

There are many threats to data, such as:

• Hackers
• Viruses
• Theft
• Natural disasters
• Computer failures

All of these pose varying amounts of threats to your data. For example, viruses may attempt to delete or steal your data. An easy way to stop this is to download an antivirus. Some good examples of free antivirus programs are Avigra Antivir, AVG and Spybot. An antivirus should also stop hackers from gaining access to your computer. Using different passwords for your computer and banking details will stop a hacker from gaining access to all of your data once they find out your one password.

Things that are very difficult to stop from harming your data are things like natural disasters and computer failures. A good way to not lose everything, though, is to have an offsite backup, which is in a different physical location from your computer that copies and stores versions of your data. This is useful because if you lose your data from your computer, you will still have another copy that you can then use.