Digital Privacy and Security Using Windows

This book explains how beginning and professional computer users can protect their digital data, secure online communications and become anonymous online. Using sophisticated yet practical tools and techniques, readers will learn how to make communications private, how to keep data encrypted and hidden, how to ensure internet connections remain anonymous and identities guarded, and how to keep purchases secret and devices locked. They will also learn best practices to harden their operating system and delete digital traces using the most widely used operating system, Windows®.

The rapid expansion of the digital world has produced a resultant increase in digital crime area. Users with basic computing skills need a guide to explain potential online threats and how they can avoid it. More computer-savvy users also need to be aware of such risks and how to take steps to prevent them.

Digital Privacy and Security Using Windows offers a comprehensive list of practical digital privacy tutorials in addition to a complete repository of free online resources and tools assembled in one place. This book, combined with its associated website, helps readers build a robust defense from electronic crime. It covers general principles of digital privacy and how to configure and use various internet applications to maintain your privacy, such as TOR, VPN, encrypting email communications using Gpg4win, encrypting data at rest and in transit, concealing data in the Windows® file system, and many more.

What you'll learn

• How to protect digital data, secure online communications, and become anonymous online.
  
• How to cover and destroy your digital traces using Windows® OS.
  
• How to become anonymous online.
  
• How to secure your data in transit and at rest.
  
• Online risks and countermeasures.
  

Who This Book Is For

Forensic investigators and information security professionals, journalists and whistleblowers, management sector in all industries, end users seeking privacy, infosec students, and military and intelligence services IT staff.