Summary
By now we should have an armour-plated PC to underpin a safe web development working environment and should be able to research and adapt our solutions to effectively safeguard other local devices as well.
Among other things, our machines should sport super-secure anti-malware solutions as well as first class password management. Coupled with backup and program discipline, both of these key concerns are particularly important as we prepare to venture into the security minefield that is the wider online network.
Most importantly, we should have a fair grasp of the security scene both in terms of anti-malware and of the overall risk to systems. Logically simple as it is, the default-deny strategy has been an essential concept to grasp. It will become a recurrent theme.
Let's move on. In Chapter 4, we'll begin with the router, consider the use of public computers and wireless hotspots, address our e-mail, and readdress our data and, more than likely, give Microsoft a hard time again when...
