Data security

Data security

1. Use credit not debit online!- credit cards use many more robust security features than debit cards

   • spend >£100 and get additional insurance from credit card if company goes bust

2. phishing

   • someone encouraging you to give out personal information
     • uses impersonal greetings
     • prize or threat
     • links in email
     • attachment to download
     • spelling and grammar errors

3. encryption

   • scrambling data with a key so that it can only be unscrambled by the same key