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downbeach

downbeach

I have moved out of my house after selling it, and am currently living in a hotel for a few month's while the new house is under construction. The hotel has free WiFi on an open network. For security purposes, I installed a VPN on my system(TunnelBear) to help secure my information. Is there anything else I can do to improve my security?
TIA
 
saltkreep88

saltkreep88

I do cyber security reviews on a daily basis. Your next step and bigger concern be local access. Never run as local admin, disable all autorun, keep av updated, and tighten up your local firewall. If you have sensitive data put it all in one folder and encrypt it. Lastly back your data up on an external hard drive, ransomware is spreading like crazy.
 
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njtiger24 aquariums

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saltkreep88 said:
I do cyber security reviews on a daily basis. Your next step and bigger concern be local access. Never run as local admin, disable all autorun, keep av updated, and tighten up your local firewall. If you have sensitive data put it all in one folder and encrypt it. Lastly back your data up on an external hard drive, ransomware is spreading like crazy.
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Second what @saltkreep88 stated.
 
downbeach

downbeach

I have Norton Security Suite that keeps my av updated, and manages my firewall(for now). Window's updates are done automatically. Both real time and cloud based protection are turned on. Can you explain local administrator and disable autorun? Although I have two external HD's, they are currently in storage, and unaccessable. BTW, I'm running Windows 10.
 
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DaveK

Even more important that all the other stuff mentioned is to have full complete backups that allow you to restore the entire system to a bare metal PC. Then test your backup and restore process.

That way, no matter what occurs, you can at least get back the system at the point of the last backup.

All that security software and procedures are nice, and necessary, but sometimes the hackers will still get you, and you don't want to be left high and dry.
 
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