Cyber Defense eMagazine December Edition for 2021

How To Protect Your Digital Legacy
By Jamie Wilson, MD, Cryptoloc Technology Group
From your birth certificate to your will, much of your life is lived on paper – and now, that paper is moving
to the cloud. But while there are clear advantages to digitising our most important documents, there’s
also an art to doing it properly. Here’s how you can move your records online safely and securely, and
ensure you’re able to pass your digital legacy on when the time comes.
Why should you digitize your documents?
Over the course of our lives, we accrue a lot of documents that need to be stored safely – everything
from contracts, wills, trust deeds, share portfolios, property and vehicle leases, insurance policies, tax
returns, power of attorney documents and funeral plans to hard-earned degree certificates, precious
family photos and spicy love letters.
But if you’re relying on paper documents, then you could be setting yourself up for disaster – quite literally,
in the case of a fire, flood or even a tornado. Even if you avoid that worst-case scenario, information
stored in physical formats will deteriorate a little further every time it’s handled, so it’s essential to preserve
paper documents by scanning and converting them into digital files.
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