Whether it’s a work account or a personal account, your social media page or your website, it’s very common for accounts to be broken into when passwords are not strong enough to secure your sensitive information. Security software is placed into your device in order to have better security for your information across your device and through any application.

Anti-virus’s

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Placing anti-virus software on your account or webpage is probably a more suitable and appropriate way around blocking hackers and unwanted guests from your webpage. Installing anti-virus software is not complex and once installed, it can actually last you very long.

Boxcryptor is one simple software to install to your webpage:

Introducing their website with a short description of what’s provided.

Opening the website gives you a small introduction to what boxcryptor is and the type of software it covers.

3 option deals verify different requirements, and different subscriptions allow different things.

They include 3 different packages that can best fit your standards and how you wish the software to operate when installing, for this introduction, we are selecting the Free Package.

An account must be created in order to continue using their page.

Continue on by filling in the following provided information to continue installing boxcryptor’s software.

When creating your password, you should ensure that your password is long and strong enough, making sure that hackers do not attempt to break into your data. A way to make sure of this:

Make sure your password is more than 8 characters long
Use a mix of uppercase and lowercase characters
Include numbers in different areas of your characters, or even in between.
Include symbols in your password

Things to avoid when creating your password:

Do not use your Surname or Forename in your password
Avoid using your birthday
Do not use number sequences such as: “1234” | “09876” | “123456”
Avoid using guessable phrases such as “Password” | “*Application Name*” | “Username”

Some examples of strong passwords:

.3mily89$
$am0$am9
^H0lly<!
3bay$20!!

Proceed to continue the steps to download their app to your device.

Whether you are operating on an Android or Mac, this same page will appear when you have finished filling in the provided information above. Select the blue button to install the software to your device to then activate it.

Final steps to downloading their app to your device.

Finally, select the installed software and add it to your device. Open up the application to activate it and you will have completed the installation.

Backups

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Keeping a regular routine to have your work and information constantly backed up is effective to ensure that no data or sensitive information is lost. Documents and files should often be backed up in a safe area to make sure that it is secure and safe, avoiding loss of data and avoiding theft from hackers getting their hands on this data.

Updraft is one plugin that can be added to your webpage for regular automatic backups:

WordPress’s Plug-in pages with searches of different Updraft plug-ins.

Search for “updraft” in the search box, then select the first plugin that comes up.

Updraft-Plus’s introduction on the plugin before installing.

If you are wanting further information on the plugin before installing it, click on the subtitle of the plugin will provide you with a small introduction about the software before installing, how it works and what it does.

All the plugins that have been made can be found on this page.

Once you have installed the plugin, select “settings” under the following categories provided for further information.

Updraft’s settings with a selection of different ways to have your backup work automatically and in the way you wish it to process.

Updraft then allows you to alter the settings on how you prefer your backups to work, whether that’s specific applications you need backing up regularly or targeted areas of your work.

UpdraftPlus’s plugin is in its final step, finalised and ready to backup.

Finally, save your settings and select “Backup Now” to begin your first backup.

Downloading is in progress, the bar will fill up when at 100%.

The backup will continue to process and load until the blue line has reached the end at 100% to fully back up all the work and designs that were done for your website. Information can then be backed up and stored where you want by altering the settings to your backup place for future updates.

Installing Security

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Having that extra bit of security on your page is always a better choice. There are many different ways to install software, apps and firewalls to protect your webpage.

Wordfence is one software to install to your webpage to help protect:

WordPress’s Plug-in pages with searches of different Updraft plug-ins, these are searches ups of different types of Woredfence Security plugins.

Scroll down through your side menu bar and select “Plugins” then find the search bar and search “Wordfence” to find a range of different types of security to add to your website.

A small introduction about what Wordfence is and how it works.

If you are not too sure about the software before installing it, you can also click on the title of the plugin and a small introduction page will appear on the screen. it explains and introduces its security and how it works, and how it will benefit you and your website.

Once you have installed your plugin, you will see it has appeared on the list of plugins you have active on your website. It is important to make sure that all your installed plugins are up to date and upgraded regularly in order for you to have the latest version for your website.

Wordfence’s detail and description, the update button at the top is there to be regularly updated so that the newest version is always up to speed.

The update button is always located at the top of the plugin, simply click on “Update Now” and wait on the screen until it is completed for the latest version.