INTERNET SECURITY

Internet Security and Uses

Internet Security and Uses

Introduction

The Internet has been used widely nowadays. It has been used in every field of life such as business, communication, education and so on. Therefore, the Internet becomes one of the most important things that people need in our life. Because of its importance, it has many threats that should be taken into account, because these threats can affect the personal computers and the data stored on these computers. As a result, there is a need to make these computers and data secured .The question that people have to answered now is what is the Internet security?

Discussion & Analysis

Internet security became one of the most threats that many people care of when they are connecting to the Internet, because there are some hackers who are able to enter the others' computers and they steal or destroy data stored in these computers. Therefore, there is an urgent need for programs that prevent those hackers; this helps the computer's specialists to invent software's that can detect these threats. Internet security is primarily interested in "protecting internet accounts, profile and the confidential information included in it from unknown and unauthorized users" (Burnett et al., 2001). In addition, "the Internet is a network of networks not a network of hosts" (Ciampa, 2005). This research will be divided into three main parts: the first will discuss the definition of the concept of Internet security; the second part of the research will define the types of internet security threats that affect the computer such as spam, Viruses, Adware/Malware, DOS Attacks and Information Theft. This research will also provide some examples on these threats, and how it works to access the computer and destroy the stored data. Finally, this research will discuss the processes of protecting the computer from these harmful programs. This process is usually in the form of software programmes which check for viruses and block them. They also help us to use our computers safely. These softwares are able to detect any threats or viruses and delete them. There are many anti-virus programs such as Kaspersky, MacAfee, and Avira and so on. These softwares work effectively to prevent these threats. Furthermore, their charges are reasonable.

The internet is a widespread information infrastructure, but it is an insecure channel of sending messages because the message is sending from one website to another and the information in the message is routed by a number of intermediate websites before arriving its destination Internet Security starts with the beginning of the Internet (Burnett et al., 2001).According to Ciampa (2005) internet security is a term that refers to the techniques to protect data and information in the computer from unauthorized persons. It has become a dangerous problem in nowadays. People using the internet should take care of these problems aroused because of it.

Internet Security Ramifications

Before the Internet, information was distributed between local area network workstations sharing a common communications line. Connected workstations shared the application and data resources of a server within a ...