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The world is fast
becoming one global village Connected by the internet and How you protect your data and personal information prepares you for the feature. It is for this reason that ADISI Cameroon in collaboration with Digital defense partnership has held a 2 days capacity building workshop for journalist and civil society organizations on digital security .
The workshop took place on Dec 17 and 18 in buea with the aim of training participants how to protect both personal information and organizational information. Digital security as explained by tech expert Churchill Nanje, refers to tools used to protect data and how you share that data. He equally added that,who you share it with determines how secured your information is from digital threats such as viruses,system crash,hackers,third party and other insider threats within the organization.these threats can be minimized by the use of some security tools like Antivirus software, VPN, and fire walls.All these tools will protect your computer against virus attacks, hackers and any other intruders.
Cross section of participants
Also, mobile phones were not left out .Mobile phones are part of our daily life and protecting it is essential they can be protected from threats with tools like Trustgo ,Avast,Kapersky . These tools are application which can be bought and installed in your phone to protect your data . participants were also given some information about Email encryption which is mixing up the content of and email into a puzzel which only you the sender has the key to solving it .encryption is important as it protects your information form data breach .
It should be noted that your phone, computer or laptop is you and the weakest link to every security bridge on your device is you so being careful with who has access to your information should be treated with caution.
By Amambo Carrey Pride
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