12 Top Tips for Building Cyber Resilience at Home

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Gary Henderson Cyber security advocate and director of IT
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This week's free online safety guide focuses on Cyber Resilience. It highlights a number of risks such as how to use a password manager, how to back up your data and how to check for breaches.

A free online safety guide on Cyber Resilience. 

In the last couple of decades, the volume of online traffic has increased exponentially – but, by and large, people’s awareness of the accompanying risks hasn’t grown along with it. To illustrate the scale of the issue, consider this: a report by the Internet Crime Complaint Centre found that, in the US during 2020, there was a successful cyber-attack every second. Yes: every second. 

Criminals continue to find new and devious ways to attempt to hijack our online transactions and harvest our private information. To them, the smart devices that many of us now use as standard at home are simply a convenient back door into our lives – and our networks. Check out our #WakeUpWednesday guide for advice on beefing up your household’s cyber resilience. In the guide you'll find tips on a number of potential risks such as how to use a password manager, how to back up your data and how to check for breaches.