How to protect your data?

 

The confidential data are any types of data if leaked could cause several damages to any company such as data lost, loss of reputation or a person.

Data are categorized in the following ways:

PII (Personal identifiable Information) – Consist of data such as Username and password, date of birthday, social security number, credit card number and others.

PHI (Personal Health Information) – Consist of data such as data related to human health (medical record).

Sensitive or confidential Information – Consist of data related managed by private institution, public institution, military institution or army or data that belong to a person such as personal data that could be used to blackmail someone (Pictures, message, voice call, video and others).

Financial Data – Consist of data managed by financial institution such as Banks, any institution storing financial information (Organization, Insurance companies and others)

The data are protected by regulations or standards based on the countries where the data reside such as the African Union’s Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection, GDRP, The Gramm-Leach-Bliley, HIPAA, PCI DSS and others.

 

Below, you can get some tips about how to protect your data:

Don’t share confidential data sensitive data via public file transfer and storage.

Don’t put data such as password, key, source code on public GitHub or other code repositories.

Use 2FA.

Use encryption while sharing confidential data

Don’t put any confidential data over social media

Don’t upload file on virus total or others similar sources unless you are sure that it does not contain any confidential data

Use the hash to check the file reputation on VT

Monitor confidential data leaked on dark web or data leaked issue from source such as Havebeepwned

Monitor your key word on different social media

Perform a vulnerability assessment and patching

Perform a threat hunting to detect any threat that can be exploited