SECURITY: Home Users that Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail

Larry Seltzer's just plain right: Home users need a disaster plan. If you don't plan for security at home, you will get hit--and it could cost you all those digital photos and years worth of files. Unfortunately, the people who need to hear this probably don't read eWeek (or this blog, for that matter). So we're left with only three alternatives:

1. Home users will continue to get hacked, lose their precious files, and be used to create a cyberspace back-bone for the criminal underworld to exploit.
2. Microsoft, Apple, et al. will have to take on an increasingly intrusive security function. At first blush this might appear to be a dream come true for home users, but just the thought of it causes nightmares for privacy and security interest groups.
3. You and I, the tech (whether the "advanced" user or technology professional) can spend our free evenings and weekends tweaking and tuning grandma's, Mom's, and Uncle Fred's increasingly outdated boxes.

I don't know about you, but I really don't like any of these options. Now, Larry's article (link below) is more narrowly focused on disaster recovery, and he nobly discusses some of the backup disaster scenarios that home users may encounter. I'd like to take an even more pro-active approach and try to preclude the disaster in the first place.

- Hutch

Home Users Need To Plan For The Worst