Discussion 4b Cybersecurity & How you can protect your data.

Hello everyone,

For organizations that hold large amounts of data and customer information it’s important for them to also focus on Cybersecurity. Cybersecurity protects your organization from data breaches and hackers from getting a hold on important information. Data breaches impact so many people every year because their data is stolen, and this can impact their ability to do everyday things, for example get a loan. Having your data stolen can cause massive issues to your customers as well as your organization. There are little government regulations that protect your personal data, because of this it’s important for organizations to be up to date with cybersecurity. We also want to look at this from a personal perspective. Our data can possibly be stolen within an organization we trust, how will we protect ourselves, especially when there are little to no government regulations protecting us? There are some ways we can protect ourselves from hackers, we can manage our passwords better. Using systems like 1 password allows you to secure your passwords for many different sites. We can also install different programs like antivirus on our computers to protect our data. Finally, Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a private network that you can install on your computer that will encrypt your personal data. These are just a few examples of how you can protect your data online.