Early January is a great time to start using healthy digital habits and you still have time to make a promise to yourself and try to follow them during the next year.
Kaspersky experts have prepared a list of simple healthy digital habits that can strengthen the safety of your personal data and even make life easier in the coming year.
1. New Year, new passwords!
Start the New Year with a real password revision. Now is the time to check and change passwords on all accounts. And remember the main rule – don’t use the same password for multiple accounts!
If you are like many people and have several online accounts, then a reliable password manager is a good help. Modern password managers have features that greatly simplify life with passwords.
Another handy option is the automatic password generator. As a result, a password manager will help you generate unique and complex passwords for each account – and you only need to remember one master password.
2. Subscribe to notifications about account data leaks
Besides weak passwords data leaks are another threat to your personal and corporate accounts.
Get ahead of scammers in 2023 by using services that scan the latest leaks and looking whether they contain your data. Advanced password managers include this feature as well and quickly notify users if any of the saved logins or passwords are found in the recent data leaks.
3. Need more privacy, get a VPN!
Once a niche product for geeky users and businesses, VPNs are now a must-have for anyone who wants to stay safe and private online. Modern VPN solutions meet all user needs, for example, they are easy to use, provide high traffic speeds and keep personal data private.
Now the range of possible scenarios for using a VPN has expanded significantly. It allows to securely shop online, watch streaming services from anywhere in the world, or access local content.
It also hides your IP address from websites and advertisers, granting better privacy.
4. Transfer documents to a safe place
With the development of digital services, scans and electronic versions of documents are now used as often as their paper originals. You can safely store this data by using a password manager app. Modern password manager are capable of storing more than just passwords or banking data. Now these are full-fledged encrypted electronic storages where you can upload scans, PDFs and other important documents that you want to protect. This can also include medical records and telephone addresses, as well as any documentation or files related to work and business.
At the same time, such storage services are many times safer compared to more traditional storage locations, because they are specially encrypted, and can be decrypted only with the help of one master password, which should only be in the user’s head.
5. Learn more about child’s hobbies on the Internet with kids
Today, children have digital devices in their hands from an early age – about five-years-old. For a child’s path to the digital world to be safe and interesting, it is important to teach and share with them the rules of online safety from childhood. To make such talks more enjoyable and interesting, parents can use games and other entertaining formats.
Another tip for the New Year is to dive deep into your kids’ online interests, so you can both together learn some secure practices to stay safe online. There are also a range of child safety software that can help parents learn more about kids’ hobbies and help kids develop healthy digital habits from an early age.
