Securing Your Digital Self – Session 2

Day 2 – Data Storage, Backups, Firewalls and Clearing your Cache

Analogy: Close the front and back door

Data Storage

• Organizing/storing data
• Suggest separating personal and business data
• Suggest separating data per project/client
• Talk about the difference between ‘cold storage’ and ‘hot storage’

Data Backups

• Start with why you want to back up your data
• Add a bit of info about smart data storage…
• Talk about local vs. cloud storage and benefits/disadvantages to both
• Talk about creating a data map, backing up data, moving data to the cloud
• Give proposed action depending on the problem

Firewalls

• Talk about what a firewall actually is
• Talk about some of the most common attack types (and whether a firewall solves the problem)
• Talk about the difference between a large scale solution and a personal solution
• Tell them how to check if they do have one on their computer, and how to get one if not

Clearing your cache

• Talk about what a cache is and its purpose
• Talk about why you’d want to clear it every so often – give a recommended time interval
• Go through how to do this on different browsers