This is not a term traditionally associated with technology. The term is a helpful metaphor for requiring to making wise decisions about Computer systems or your smart devices.

Just like in human beings, where hygiene implies living clean and carrying out routine healthy activities, like brushing your teeth regularly and washing your hands, to avoid getting sick or infecting others. These includes three simple principles: utilizing products and means that suit your hygiene needs, performing these hygienic tasks properly, and creating a routine. Thus, Cyber hygiene is referring to the procedures and measures that user of computers and other gadgets take to maintain system health and improve online security. This is to say it is about teaching yourself to reason proactively about your cyber security — as you do with your day-to-day personal hygiene — to avoid cyber threats and online security issues.