November 4, 2025

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Digital photos make sharing, printing and storing precious memories much easier. Keeping your family photos in the cloud ensures that even if disaster strikes, your memories will be kept safe and accessible. However, it also means that if hackers gain access to your cloud storage account, they’ll be able to view, steal or even delete your photos as well.

Here’s how to keep your holiday memories secure…

The Risk

Cloud storage can be compromised by weak passwords or stolen credentials. Additionally, if devices like phones or laptops are stolen, lost or hacked for any reason, attackers will have access to your saved family photos as well.

This is another reason why you shouldn’t access personal files on company devices either, or use software tools for work on a personal computer. Shared cloud access between personal and company devices is also a risk. By sharing cloud access, you greatly increase your risk; now, if either the business or your personal device is breached, the hacker has an easy access point to the other as well. That means significant risk to the company, to your personal sensitive data like banking or medical information and to your family photos too.

How To Keep Your Memories Secure

There are a few strategies you can use to keep your photos and videos secure. First, make sure you’re using strong, unique passwords for any cloud storage services. Enabling multifactor authentication on platforms like Dropbox, iCloud and Google Photos will add an extra layer of security. And, of course, keep your personal media and especially cloud accounts separate on work and personal devices.

To protect your photos and your personal information, make sure any devices have a strong, unique password protecting them. And for your most important photos, it’s best practice to keep backups both in the cloud and on a local external drive – to make sure you’ll never lose them, no matter what.

Make New Memories, Don’t Lose The Old Ones

Holidays are for making memories – not risking their loss. A few simple steps now can protect your most cherished moments and, by extension, help keep your business safe as well.

Remember, if your personal memories deserve careful protection, your business data certainly does too. Schedule a discovery call now to ensure both your holiday photos and your business systems are locked down securely: https://www.mansourcomputers.com/discoverycall/