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Auditing your security

MOST BUSINESSES OF any size now regularly go through a cyber security audit, where the company’s activities are checked against good practice and vulnerabilities and risks are identified so that they can be mitigated. Most home networks never experience that – and they really should.

While home users can’t be expected to hire a team of penetration testers to go over their digital lives with a fine-toothed comb, it’s still a good idea to run an annual audit on your own digital equipment. It’s mostly just checking that you and your family are engaging in good practice to ensure that the risk of being hacked, of having your identity stolen or your important memories

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