Ask Alec: Security for Freelance Developers

What do you do to be secure when you’re on your own?

So in my mailbox a few weeks ago there arrived the following:

Hi Alec

I was wondering whether you’d mind doing me a small favour. It’d be great if you could punt out a quick top 5 / top 10 tips for sensible data security practices for freelance developers (encrypted backups, being mindful of client data dumps from production systems – am sure you get where I’m coming from) […]

Cheers,\ Steve

It’s a question that I hear a lot and the challenge is keeping my response down to a reasonable, memorable minimum; let’s try, though this will assuredly be an incomplete list…

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