By: Carlos Nodarse,
Chief Executive Officer
Applied Business Software, Inc.
We live in a world that revolves around and depends on the Internet. Our personal and professional lives depend on it. I wrote this article on a computer and delivered it to the editor electronically. Odds are you are reading it on some sort of electronic device connected to the Internet. Can you imagine how difficult it would have been to make this all happen without our connected world? Extremely inefficient. But, as wonderful as this all is, it comes with a price. By being “connected”, you expose yourself to individuals looking for opportunities to take advantage of you. Disconnecting yourself and your business from the rest of the world is not an option. So what is one to do? Turns out there are quite a few things you can do.
Web Browsing. We spend a good chunk of our day browsing the Internet. It is therefore a good idea to follow some simple guidelines.
1. SSL Sites. When visiting sites, make sure the site is protected by an SSL certificate. SSL certificates provide an encrypted, secure tunnel of communication between your browser and the site you are visiting. It also serves to authenticate the owner of the site. Depending on your browser, sites using SSL are identified by the letters “HTTPS” at the beginning of their URL as well as a “lock” symbol near the URL. If you can avoid sites not using SSL, do so.