I thought I knew what I needed to protect myself on the internet. In the West Midlands, our kids came home from primary school, as young as seven, talking earnestly about internet safety: 'Don't share details or pictures,' they'd say. 'Great,' I thought, 'the schools will teach them everything they need to know.' But they don't.
The internet is like opening your front door..
The internet is a bit like opening your front door to the world. When things go wrong, you quickly realise you are completely on your own. For my family, it was a very stressful time when the kids were in primary school. We had nothing in place to protect them beyond basic advice. We quickly learned a harsh truth: you are ultimately responsible for their safety at home and there are some nasty people out there in the either
The DATA we amass
The second major realisation was all about the sheer volume of data we amass. As of today, I have over 500,000 files—pictures, documents, finances, and videos—requiring 3TB of storage, and it keeps growing. My wife and I quickly adopted new technology, upgrading PCs every couple of years, only to realise that if a hard drive fails, you lose everything
Yes, we lost everything
We lost everything. Not to malware or ransomware, but simply to poor prioritisation of what is truly important: our data. That dual experience—the security gap and the data loss—is the main reason I’m writing this blog. It’s time to take control of our home network security and data backup.
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