How to Keep your Computer Safe

In life, sometimes we feel like nothing we try works. Everything around us crumbles and fails, and it seems that the path to success has been boarded up with an iron gate, triple locks and 500 pound chains. Without good online security in our websites, everything around us really will crumble. Online safety is essential to the success of internet business owners. Trust seals, security (or vulnerability) scans, and website protection to secure our online companies from would-be hackers – keeping our customers’ personal identities, bank accounts, and all other information private and safe.

Getting your website protected with more than just an SSL certificate is critical to succeeding online. That’s because the possibility of someone, some group of hackers, or even some nation or terrorists waging “cyber-war” or “cyber-terrorism” grows with each passing day.

In the past decade, hackers have taken down nine of the 14 servers that run the Internet in the USA.  They have penetrated the Pentagon, the Dept. of Defense, the Dept. of Army and who knows what else—and this was 3-4 years ago, in the 2007-2008 time frame.  Now, in 2011, so much of our infrastructure and day-to-day existence is controlled by computers and communicated by networked devices, that a widespread attack would be even more devastating.

Just this week, a Computerworld article reported that 80% of all web browsers in use are vulnerable to attack.  In fact, all of our systems are vulnerable to attack to some degree, including many of our supposedly most secure government systems.  Simply consider the information that WikiLeaks gained access to—and that was allegedly with the help of human intervention, which is often the case with security breaches.

But don’t worry, it is never too late. Professional online security scanning companies like McAfee Secure and Trust Guard are created to fight against computer hackers. Trust Guard, for example, checks for over 43,000 vulnerabilities hackers use to infiltrate websites. If holes in your website are found, they send a report so that the vulnerability can be immediately repaired. You can succeed as an online business owner. Your first step is to stay safe and protected from hackers. 

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