USB thumb drives – these drives have dropped in price dramatically, and make excellent backup drive for personal files.
UPS battery backups: – don’t let the next power failure or lightning strike render your computer useless. A battery backup will protect against corrupting your data in a power failure and also against a power surge in a storm.
Strong passwords are your friend: – no device should have the default password, it’s just not safe. A bad password is better than the default one.

Viruses & Spyware, get cured!:
Have you noticed your home or office PC slowing down Or maybe your computer has just been acting funny, long boot times and strange messages on the screen could be signs of a virus.  Are you protected? Do you have anti-virus software?How about spyware software?  Is it up to date? These are serious questions,  that require a serious answer don’t think about the repercussions of the answers after you have a virus. Don’t get stuck with too little protection too late.