Best Practices to Protect Yourself

1. Think before you type. Your brain is your best security tool.

2. Use a different email address for every website and for each
activity.

3. Use unique usernames and passwords for every site and for
each activity.

4. Clear private data and history from your browsers after every
session.

5. Use and maintain firewall and anti-malware tools.

6. When engaged in Web harvesting, use a large number of source IP addresses.

7. Do not conduct any personal business on operational computers.

8. Work in a virtualized environment, and revert to a baseline image frequently.

9. Never keep sensitive or work information on the machine (or Virtual Machine Image) used for Internet operations/investigations.

10.Make sure your Internet activities can never be traced back to you or your organization.