When you get a computer, the most important thing to do to make sure your computer is safe is to download antivirus and antimalware software, but make sure its from a trusted source so that you don’t accidentally download the thing you’re trying to protect your computer from instead. If you have both of these, make sure to keep it updated as technology is always evolving and these systems are also always evolving. Make sure to use these systems to always scan for any unwanted data. The next thing to do so that your computer can be safe is to install a firewall so that no one can breach into your system, or at least it will make it significantly harder for any attacker to do so. It will monitor all incoming and outgoing network traffic. The next thing you can do is make sure you’re keeping up with your updates as I said before, technology is always evolving and if you don’t stay on top if it, not updating your systems can cause no holes and risks to open up. One of the most important but simple things to remember thought it making sure that you use strong and not guess-able passwords for all of your data, including getting into your systems. Making sure that you have a strong password can automatically eliminate one of the largest reasons for people losing their sensitive data today. Also making sure that at all times you have a secure network connection is also a big part of it. Ensuring your Wifi is secure by using encryption, changing the default router passwords, and enabling network firewalls are all apart of this. A very important thing that most people also undermine is the use of backing up data. Regularly backing up data on something like an external drive, cloud storage, or a backup service. This is important because if you ever lose all your data for any reason, youll be able to get it all back easily because you simply backed it up.