It's Cyber Security Month at BU and we're聽sharing our top tips about how you can keep yourself, your personal information and your devices safe and secure.
This week we鈥檙e focusing on staying safe online. You can also catch up on last weeks news about聽.
Keep your personal devices, personal
It鈥檚 really easy to add a pass code, or even a thumb print, face or retina scanning, to mobile devices now. It鈥檚 also a good idea to set up a timer on your auto-lock function in case you get distracted and don鈥檛 close your device properly. It鈥檒l save you from accidentally calling friends and family and leaving random voicemails!
And please don鈥檛 leave devices unattended and unlocked on campus or in public, even if just for a few minutes.
How to use Microsoft to encrypt files
Always protect any important and sensitive files with a password before storing or emailing them.聽To do this for Microsoft applications, go to File, Information and then click Protect Document, as shown below.
Then select Encrypt with Password, this brings up the option to add a password, as shown below.
Important: If you are sending the document to someone, remember to send the password to the recipient by means other than email 鈥� options include over the phone or via text.
Look out for further tips about聽, including ,聽throughout this month - if you've got any queries, please get in touch with the聽.
