Cybersecurity 101

The internet is here to stay and will continue to evolve. With the introduction and chaotic accelerated growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), online threats will only become more sophisticated and malicious. A baseline comprehension of cyber self-defense is paramount, and proper cybersecurity hygiene is essential to protecting yourself, your family, and your business from hackers and to thwart virtual threats that have gone viral.

Right now, you are in a battle to protect yourself and your family from hackers, and there is no white knight on horseback galloping to your rescue. Most of the so-called "experts" in the yellow pages are upstarts who, in most cases, know just as much as you about the problem but compensate by using virus scan programs that offer the illusion of expertise. Most computers have boilerplate antivirus software and perhaps some sort of firewall, but this is hardly enough to thwart malicious hackers from breaching your system.