Prevention of Cyber Crime
Prevention is always better than cure. It is always better to take certain precaution while operating the network. A should make them his part of cyber life. Saileshkumar Zackary, technical adviser and network security consultant to the Mumbai Police Cyber cell, advocates the 5P mantra for online security: precaution, Protection, Perseverance.
Things to be kept in mind to prevent cybercrime:
- To prevent cyberstalking avoid disclosing any information pertaining tonne. This is as good as disclosing your identity to strangers in public place.
- Always avoid sending any photograph online particularly to strangers and chat friends as there have been incidents of misuse of the photographs.
- Always use latest and update antivirus software to guard against virus attacks.
- Always keep back up volumes so that one may not suffer data loss in case of virus contamination.
- Never send your credit card number to any site that is not secured, to guard against frauds.
- Always keep a watch on the sites that your children are accessing to prevent any kind of harassment or deprivation in children.
- It is better to use a security programmer that gives control over the cookies and send information back to the site as leaving the cookies unguarded might prove fatal.
- Web site owners should watch traffic and check any irregularity on the site. Putting host-based intrusion detection devices on servers may do this.
- Use of firewalls may be beneficial.
- Web servers running public sites must be physically separate protected from the internal corporate network.
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