Home Security in the Information Age
Most people, when they think of home security, imagine burglar bars and house alarms. However, in the information age there is more to protecting you valuable property than securing jewellery, cash, electric appliances and your other material belongings.
Information accumulates at a stupendous rate both electronically and physically in the average household today. The amount of information that the average household generates is in the order of one document per day. That amounts to the equivalent of a full-length book each year. That is quite apart from the extraordinary number of digital photographs a snap-happy household can produce.
Losing important information
Go to any desk drawer in your home and you are likely to find important documents stashed there. Look in the inbox on your computer. Once again you will find important correspondence there, just waiting for your PC to crash.
Burglars are unlikely to steal your information. There is a worse threat to your important data than a burglar ' your own lack of time and resources to protect this information. We have all had the feeling. You need that important letter from the municipality or bank statement ' but where is it?
Here is a partial list of some items that accumulate both electronically and physically in the average household:
' Operating manuals and guides
' holiday photographs
' product warranties
' school and college records
' correspondence
' heirloom recipes
It takes another kind of home security to keep all off this data safe and readily accessible.
Another kind of home security
Fortunately there is a solution to storing documents other than using box files, which is expensive, time consuming and takes up space. Many households are turning to online document storage to secure their important information. With the younger generation in particular being comfortable with technology, online data storage comes naturally.
This works as follows: all important information is digitized and stored privately on a remote server. Even if your home burns down or you move house, or even immigrate overseas, your information stays safe and secure and you can access it via the internet.