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How
to Secure Your Laptop When Working Offsite
When you're working offsite, whether at a client's office or the
local coffee shop, you've got to protect your laptop, whether from
physical theft or the nosy cyber-snoop who's trying to flip through
your iTunes library (or worse). While your company has probably
provided you with a VPN to securely connect to their internal
network, what about your personal passwords and local files? Let's
take a look at a few good habits to get into for safe laptop
computing, and then some more advanced tactics.
The Basics:
Best Practices Every laptop user should have a healthy paranoia
about the possibility of getting their notebook stolen or hacked
while they're using a public Wi-Fi network at the airport or
coffeehouse. Stay circumspect and use some of the tools built into
your notebook's operating system to keep yourself safe.
Turn
on your firewall. When you're on an open Wi-Fi network, make sure
you have your laptop's firewall on and blocking unwanted incoming
connections. In Windows' Control Panel, click on Windows Firewall.
On your Mac, in System Preferences, go to Security and click on the
Firewall tab to turn it on.
Password protect — or unshare —
shared folders. When you're at home, sharing a document folder with
other computers behind your firewall is a fine idea. But when you're
out and about, you may not want everyone to be able to see your
collection of family vacation photos. Make sure your shared folders
are password protected when you're not on a safe network. Even
better, turn off all sharing when you're on a public network.
Use https (secure connections to web sites) whenever possible.
When you're checking your webmail like Gmail or Yahoo Mail, or
visiting any site with the option, make sure you're using the
https:// (instead of http://) connection to encrypt any information
you submit there, like your password. Most modern webmail and
calendar programs like Gmail and Google Calendar offer an https://
option.
