Top Ways to Prevent Data Loss

Antivirus is not always able to prevent you from all threats. There are many threats which Antivirus is not able to detect such as malwares. These threats always change their definitions each day and your Antivirus can only detect known threat by identifying their signature database. Anti-ransomware is a kind of malware and when it attacks on your PC, it takes-over your control and access.

Once they enter into your PC, it can affect your PC in many ways and can damage your wealth by ruining your data and there are very less chances of data recovery thereafter. They ask ransom of certain amount through a message, for which time limit is also fixed. You have to pay within that time, otherwise amount increases as time lapses.

Hackers always target big organizations to make huge money by stealing their valuable data. Losing such valuable data is like a disaster one could suffer if there is a serious ignorance, while making proper arrangement for data loss. There are many disasters in the history of cyber attacks such as ‘wannacry ransomware attack’, which has targeted multiple of computers by spreading rapidly. You can avoid such situation by making smart practices while browsing on internet.

Here are Some Smart Practices You Should Follow to Prevent Data Loss:

• First and foremost you should always keep back-up of your data. Always plan safer to prevent your data from hack. Backing-up is the simple way you can prevent loosing of your important data.

• There are many forms of keeping back-up either you can make a copy of your data in your external device such as pen-drive, hard-drive or if you have huge data, you can also use cloud service to store your plenty of data without worrying about data space.

• Most of the Antivirus software programs also provide service of backing-up of data that is stored in your computer. In case your computer gets infected, after removing the virus you can retrieve your data back in it. Use good Antivirus software for your PC.

• You need to update your security software and other software’s programs in your computer regularly, to make them function properly. So that they do not become source for attackers.

• Secure your computer with a good and strong password, so that unknown person could not have access to your personal computer. Thus, this will help in preventing data stealing of your PC.

• In big organizations there is a more risk of data stealing, as multiple devices are connected with a single network. Where it becomes easier for the hackers, to do harm and target the computers. Arrangement should be made to limit access of important data and information to some senior and responsible persons only.

• You can arrange multiple back-ups of your most important data and files. So as to create substitutes in case one option fails, you would have another.

• Data is a big asset for the large organizations and to lose that data is losing the business. It is worth making arrangements before, than to repent later.