Vikas on Security

As we buy bigger and more expensive cars in India I always wonder that for most people their car insurance costs would be a significant amount. On an average every car owner in India spends 5,000 to 20,000 rupees on insurance. This expense is governed and necessitated by need to offset the damage by regulation to your vehicle in case of an accident and also by regulation. Similarly there is a need to wear helmets and have cars with Airbags and ABS to prevent injury to the passengers. Now when we look at the large number of transactions we do and money we spend online do we similarly try to protect ourselves or offset our losses in case of an accident involving theft, impersonation or attack. As online sales and banking, transactions rise the probability of theft and fraud is increasing rapidly. However at the individual level most people are not concerned with the protection of their online transactions by taking necessary safeguards and countermeasures. Most individuals in In...

                     Despite being a Information security professional I have over the years neglected my own personnel security in various ways. However recently to get back on track and learn the latest trends I did a online course on Introduction to Cyber Security from FutureLearn. This opened my eyes in terms of the number of small and basic mistakes I am still committing in my personnel space of Cyber Security at home and with my personal dealings online. I will outline below the some of the basic mistakes and ways in which I corrected myself. Bad Password Security                      As most people I have accounts for a large number of sites online and have been very lax about my passwords storage and reuse. I was constantly reusing my passwords online, had stored my passwords on an excel sheet and written them on a diary. To obviate these problems I have recently bou...