How to safeguard our personal and financial data?

4:50 PM / Posted by E-commerce /

Internet is a public network of nearly 50,000 networks connecting millions of computers throughout the world. As we interesting to become a member of this website, we should register by filling in some personal information such as name, date of birth, gender, address, telephone, e-mail address, occupation and interests. “Personal Financial Information” means any record containing a customer of a financial institution, whether in paper, electronic, or another form, that is handled by behalf of the institution or its affiliates.
The company will record consumer information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, bank and credit card account numbers and et-cetera if online purchase. However, is it security to protect consumer avoid utilize by other people?

Here are a few approaches on how to safeguard our personal and financial data:

Do not reveal any personal information or particularly passwords to anyone. Remember to log out properly before leaving the Financial Data Center, after using any of the Financial Data Center or member services.

Closing the browser window is necessary in order to prevent other users from reading personal information if share information with another user or use our service on a public computer.

Avoid using passwords that can be easily guessed, such as the name of your favorite pet or your date of birth.

Install antispyware and antivirus software. Symantec, Norton and Avast! antivirus are popular software use by computer users. Its clean computer and protect personal information, financial data and etc.

Access control mechanism limits the actions that can be performed by an authenticated person or group and determines who can use the network resource and what resource can be used.

Related links:
1)http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs23-shopping.html

2)http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/103893/Six-Ways-to-Safeguard-Your-Online-Assets

3)http://www.msisac.org/awareness/news/2007-03.cfm

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