Ten Tips to Prepare Your Tech For a Hurricane
Top Ten Tips To Prepare Your Tech For a Hurricane When a hurricane is coming, it’s easy to get caught up in securing your home, loved ones, and property. We make sure to buy batteries, fill up the car, and board up our windows. But what about our tech? We may overlook these things, but in today’s age, we must secure these things too. After all, they store everything about our daily lives. Tip 1: Buy a Power bank & Charge up ALL of Your Batteries When it comes to your batteries, Top everything off. That means not just your cellphone but your smartwatches, earbuds, flashlights, and radios. It used to be that everything was powered off of batteries you could replace, but nowadays everything is rechargeable, which means we have to be extra vigilant. Tip 2: Backup All of Your passwords There are three ways to do this. If you use Google Chrome’s password manager, congratulations you’re already set. Google stores your password’s in the cloud. The second way is to store an Excel file on a USB drive. I would suggest encrypting the data using TrueCrypt or Bitdefender if you have it just in case you lose it. The third way (and least secure) is always to print a hard copy and keep it with you. Tip 3: If You Use Two Factor Authentication Make Sure to Set Up a Secondary Device This one’s important. If for any reason you don’t have access to your phone, you’ll be …