Hello again, and welcome to my penultimate blog looking at the services Tech Advice offers. This time I am going to look at our Cybersecurity Advice service and how Tech Advice seeks to help you stay secure while using your devices.
The service itself covers a range of topics from help with backing up your files to advice on securing your devices. To help you secure your devices we can suggest a variety of options to prevent unauthorised access such as how to create a strong password, and how to set up biometric identification. To assist with this we can also suggest accessories that can make your computer in particular more secure such as security keys and fingerprint readers.
While Tech Advice can try to remove viruses from your computer, we would also encourage you to back up regularly as it may not always be possible to recover your personal data. We can suggest a wide range of both digital and physical means of backing up your data (Keep an eye on the blogs page as I may post a step by step guide on this at some point).
I would always encourage you to be preventative as opposed to reactionary when it comes to cybersecurity, i.e. have a regularly updated Anti-Virus (Avast, Kaspersky, and Norton are good options among others), and don’t click links or attachments in emails from unknown parties. If in doubt contact the company who supposedly sent the email using their contact information found on their official website.
Some cybercriminals try to impersonate well known companies and to pass themselves off as the real thing; to help with this, from time to time we will be posting warnings on our social media accounts about recent scams doing the rounds, or warnings from Irish news media outlets such as KCLR and the Irish Independent. These warnings usually include suggestions from the Gardaí on how to protect yourself from such scams.
That’s it for today, in the final blog I will be looking at Tech Advice’s one-to-one lessons service which lets you decide what you want to learn for as long as you want to learn (within reason of course). As always post any suggestions for future blog posts in the comments below or under the corresponding social media post, you can also e-mail them to help@techadvice.ie.
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