Secure Your Computer Against Unattended Access(Windows)

We would take a look at a scenario based question to explore how to secure you PC basically for windows OS.

Scenario
As a seasoned IT professional, it is incumbent on you to ensure that the work area is as safe as possible. This means implementing best practices regarding cyber safety procedures and physical steps that can be enacted to protect company property and data. As part of your job description, it is important to educate staff members on the best procedures. In this exercise, you are to teach employees to strengthen the security of their workstations. The advantage of this is to strengthen company security by not allowing an authorized device to be used to access the system. Concretely you are to ensure that all workstations
left unattended for 1 minute automatically lock and require
a login on reactivation.
Step 1: Set up screen saver
Right click on the background of your windows PC and select Personalize

Alternatively, you can select Settings from the Start menu and select Personalize. While in this menu you can change settings
to suit your personal taste.

Step 2: Set Lock screen
Here, navigate to the lock screen. This menu allows you to configure what images are displayed on tour screen and for how long.

You have successfully set up a lock screen against unattended access, so that anytime your PC is inactive for about 1min,2min or based on your preferential set time the screen automatically locks to prevent access to an intruder.