Question

• I would like the answer for this question in 3-4 pages and from a "personal" point of view. (i.e.: the data in your life that is not business).Think about all of your personal data. All of your hard drives, cloud storage, smart phones, data cds, email, pictures, music, video etc...

  1) Assess your risk. How sensitive is your most sensitive data. What do you currently do to protect it? Is this enough? What would happen if the data were compromised?

  2) Identify several of your current vulnerabilities (either in design or in habit). How can these vulnerabilities be mitigated? his discussion board is only this week.

  
  Please write a response to the questions above. Feel free to openly discuss any issues or points you feel of value / interest.

Answer 1

Q.1) Assess your risk. How sensitive is your most sensitive data. What do you currently do to protect it? Is this enough? What would happen if the data were compromised?

answer:-My data is generally divided into three parts i.e(personal, professional & publicly open data). Personal and Professional data are categorized into sesitive data and the level of sensitivity depends on the data itself. Th most sensitivy data can be as important as life. For highly sensitive professional data I usually avoid to put in in any device connected with network or has internet access as their is never enough protection and make hardcopy of these types of data where it can be secure in a locker, but for the personal data I totally avoid to make any kind of copies(hardcopies and softcopies). While talking on the network security we can protect our machine by following the following points:-

• Connect to only private and trusted networks.
• Use network firewall protection.
• Use trusted VPN services(like Express VPN, Nord VPN e.t.c)
• Never download a file from the internet if the site is unprotected or your browser says it can harm your system.
• While inserting any data storage device always scan it with a trusted antivirus and then use it.
• Neve provide your personal details on random websites(even if they says the data is not being sahred with other parties or for buisness used as even big tech giant companies like facebook, google, apple are also using the data for the buisness use).

You might has experienced that if you are in a super market or a mall after your visit your social media pages are likely to show to you ads or mails based on your visit on the super market. It is one of the example of data loss almost everyone has experinced in our life, and the problems can very from smaller issues like the above example to bigger and more dangerous issues like blckmaling(thats why your data if as important as your life).

Q. 2) Identify several of your current vulnerabilities (either in design or in habit). How can these vulnerabilities be mitigated? his discussion board is only this week.

answer:-Vulnerabilities are is knowing wekness in your assets that can help hackers to enter into your system. One of common example is you forget to take the id access from your late employees or forget to disable their access login to the company account. Vulnerabilities can be mitigated by checking the following steps:-

• Check weather your data is backed up in a safe off-site location.
• Is your data is backed up in cloud? If yes waht levels of the saftey protocols you are taking for yur data protection.
• What kind of antivirus you are using? Does it provide saftey matches current standards?
• Do you have data recovery plans?