The most expedient way to achieve data privacy is to ensure its security in the first place. As 2017 dawns, take these clear steps to ensure both the security and privacy of your personal data.

A VPN establishes a secure, private, encrypted connection over which all of your traffic can flow. It’s a solid privacy protection method for your internet transmissions.

Unlike disk encryption, the idea of email encryption is to protect data in transit. This means that someone intercepting a message can’t read the secret information it contains or corrupt the data before the recipient reads it.

Your mobile device is often with you at all times, carries just as much personal data, and is an even easier target than your PC for attack!

The first step you should take to protect your digital identity is encryption your hard drive. This is easy with tools built in to your operating system!