How to Secure Your Digital Life and Maybe Relax (But Don’t Relax Too Much)

A Primer on Treating Digital Assets More Like Physical Assets to Protect Valuables

Just follow a few simple rules…(image via Stencil)

Our lives are wrapped up in a digital world. We have scattered usernames, passwords and personal information all across the internet. We have created and stored a lifetime of documents stuffed with banking info and tax information on personal computers.

Then we use smartphone to connect our personal repositories with internet destinations, where we conduct day-to-day living.

Protecting those three digital worlds is of utmost importance. If you’re overwhelmed by the thought of it, or just not sure how to get started with protecting them, the rest of this article will get you started.

It’s good to relax, but not with your digital assets. (image via Stencil)

What me worry?

Bad things can happen that severely disrupt your ability to function. Some threats come from bad people. Other threats are just bad luck. For instance:

• If your computer crashed right now, do you have a notion of how to fix it or at least recover your files?