Family Safety Week (April 23-27) is just around the corner. The date is always a timely moment to promote the safe, responsible and positive use of digital technology for children and young people. Take a look at some topics below to inspire you this week – and, why not, always – and help keeping you and your family safe online. Read more…
April Fools’ Day is definitely the day of the year when everyone has their guard up. Hackers know that and tend to be extra active on April 1st. How? With the simplest maneuvers to trick users into clicking on links, opening poisoned attachments or even handing over their passwords in the mistaken belief that they’re logging into a legitimate website.
Have you backed up your data recently? Every day people lose huge amounts of valuable data because they fail to follow this one basic procedure. March is here, but have you ever heard of World Backup Day on the 31st? Because backing up your files is such a key responsibility to protect your PC, why not dedicate the whole month to reflection?
Modern medicine is overwhelmingly reactive rather than proactive. How expensive that model is! If everyone only got sick and then sought medical assistance, we could not afford the bill. The reasoning here is similar to why you change the oil in your car rather than wait to fix a blown engine. This is also why we try to vaccinate or inoculate against as many diseases as possible. Everyone knows the motto: “Prevention is better than cure.”
As Check Point’s consumer brand, ZoneAlarm is proud to play a pivotal role within the outstanding growth of its parent company, which provides industry-leading solutions and protecting customers from cyberattacks with an unmatched catch rate of malware and other types of threats. Gil Shwed, co-founder and CEO of Check Point, was interviewed by the Forbes magazine in December. The opening paragraph summarizes the interview’s focus: growth.
