by Oliver Concepcion

Created on: August 11, 2010   Last Updated: August 12, 2010

Surviving home security breaches, a guide for skilled and non skilled home users.

As a manner of introduction

This guide is a step by step tutorial for home users to get more security for their computers, in here you'll get the basic knowledge and practices to secure your home computer to avoid almost any threat you may find while surfing the net.

This guide was made using ISACA’s COBIT security baseline 2nd edition, you can buy this book in

www.isaca.org.

I will explain in more detail the information security survival kit #1 – Home Users Chapter in pages 23 and 24.

This survival kit sets security in two non-excluding perspectives, nontechnical and technical user, basic and intermediate knowledge of computer operations respectively.

Things to have in mind for nontechnical home users

Always obtain guidance from qualified and reputable advisers to ensure that the computer installation has no security flaws. If possible, consult people that have obtained certifications or grades in computer technology for advice on security flaws in your computer setup, make them to scan vulnerabilities in your system, like missing updates in software, hardware compatibility with operating system hardware maintenance, and other stuff. Take note that this can be made at least once a year to ensure that all works as it should.

If you depend on your computer to do home business, sign up for on site support and ensure that your provider has on-call facility if anything goes wrong. Go to a computer service provider and contract support with them for them to go to your home to give support when things get bad, if your computer is a brand computer (in most cases) contract support from the computer provider and keep support active over time, this will help you to have your computer in a good point.

Obtain reputable security software. Protection packages can be obtained from all PC software dealers that include the necessary functions (Anti-virus, spyware, firewall and content filtering). If needed use a specialist to ensure proper installation, if you are in trouble with money, you can use free security software like SPYBOT search and destroy, AVG anti-virus, GFI languard, etc.

Sign for automatic updates and maintenance on the security software to ensure that the protection is current and up to date. All security software configures itself to get automatic updates in definitions and software, if you do not have a continuous Internet connection you must update when connected

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