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Cyber Hygiene

Cyber hygiene involves the ongoing practices and procedures that organizations and their employees must follow to maintain the health of their devices, applications, and network, along with improving online security. This routine helps ensure the safety and resilience of employee, customer, and partner identities and their associated data. Cyber hygiene is crucial to protecting sensitive data from cyber attacks and breaches. 

Basic cyber hygiene measures can include installing regular OS and software updates, educating employees on phishing techniques, using VPNs for secure connections, ensuring firewalls are properly configured, performing regular backups and patch updates, enforcing strong passwords and multi-factor authentication (MFA), and encrypting data. 

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