What are Three Easy Steps to Improve Your Cybersecurity?
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Three Easy Steps to Improve Your Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is one of the most important aspects of the ever-growing technological world. Although cybersecurity is one of the most important challenges faced by businesses and people today, the visibility and public awareness is not sufficient as cyber-professionals believe it should be. Here are three easy steps everyone can take to improve their Cybersecurity!
Step 1 - Spring Cleaning
The first thing we recommend is to go through each of your devices - computers, tablets, smartphones - and uninstall/delete apps and files that you don't use or no longer need. In addition to using your device's storage space, they may also be silently loading in the background and using other system resources.
You should also check and see if there are any browser extensions installed on your browser that you don't need or want. For most browsers, you can find those under the Settings menu or by typing about: extensions in the address bar of the browser.
Step 2 – Get Up-To-Date
Now that your devices are nice and clean, let's make sure the remaining software has all the updates and security patches installed.
On Windows that means using Windows Update to make sure you have all the system updates, updates for other Microsoft products, and most device drivers. On your other devices it usually means going to the system settings, or app store, for that device and having it check for any updates.
Step 3 – A Deep Scan
On Windows 10 try running Microsoft Defender Offline. To do that make sure you've saved any files you have open, then go to Windows Security > Virus & threat protection > Scan options and select Microsoft Defender Offline scan. This tool will reboot your computer and will run a deep scan that can sometimes detect malware that may elude your regular antimalware software.
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