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S ecurity A gency e tra le varie attività svolte viene anche coordinata una Awareness Raising Community. ENISA is an acronym for E uropean N etwork I nformation S ecurity and A gency and between the various activities are also coordinated a Community Awareness Raising.

The AR Community is an international group which includes experts who have an interest free to engage in awareness of security issues. I am a member of this AR-C and participate in activities that are proposed.

Recently, in July of this year, it published a document that is a good guide as best practices regarding security. I find it useful, not least in raising dell'awareness to disclose these 10 rules in steps. So now I will indicate only the first part relating to points 1 and 2.

1. Using Passwords

The password is the equivalent of the lock of your home on the Internet. Passwords are the best defense and through good use of passwords you can keep your identity safe and confidential and sensitive information.

Use a strong password

• The password is the key to your computer accdere to all information - both business and personal - you have registered on your computer and online accounts. Use a strong password to protect your data: use at least eight characters combining letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers and symbols. The greater the variety of characters you have in your password, the harder it is to guess. Do not use personal information - name, the child's name, date of birth, etc. - that someone might already know or easily obtain and try to avoid common words: some hackers use programs that try every word in the dictionary.

Change your password regularly

• If you believe that your system has been compromised change passwords immediately.

Keep your password secret

• Your password is unique and should not be shared with anyone.
• Where possible, try to learn your password to memory. Is there a strategy to save them.
• If you write your passwords down, be careful where they are stored. Do not leave trccia of your passwords anywhere.

Use different passwords

• Use different passwords for each online account to be accessed (or at least a series of passwords). If you use the same password for multiple accounts, and the attacker gains access to an account will be able to access all your accounts.

2. Protect your computer

• Lock your desktop when you leave your desk to go to a meeting, during a break and / or lunch.
• Do not allow other people to connect their USB drive to your computer, especially unsecured personal drives.
• Do not install or use illegal software and / or unauthorized software if you are compromising data security and violating the law. And 'possible to open the vulnerability of your organization's network.
• Do not connect any personal disc, music player and / or USB drives to your computer.
• Do not connect your personal laptop to the network of your organization as they may contain viruses or malware.

End of Part One.

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