Author: Alex

These days, employers provide their employees with a variety of devices from which to complete their work, from smartphones to laptops and even tablets. If you’ve been provided with an employer-issued device, your company’s IT department will usually set up login information for you, along with a selection of important apps that you’ll need to complete your daily work tasks, and anything else necessary for you to successfully do your job. After a while, you might want to start adjusting the device slightly to suit your own preferences, such as uploading a screen saver from your personal photographs, logging into your Spotify account and checking social media now and then. However, cybersecurity experts advise against combining your personal and professional lives into one device; nearly two-thirds of IT professionals believe that several high-profile breaches were caused by careless employees, who may not have even realized the impact of their actions. So, here are some things that you should never do on a work-issued device.

Billions of people from across the world use the internet each day to surf through millions of websites. Whether you log on to use social media, read the news, or do a bit of online shopping, you may not realize how much information you could be giving out to the wrong hands. With that in mind, here are five safety tips to protect your online data.