Monday, June 23, 2008

The threat of online security: How safe is our data? (Week 4)


With the evolution of the Internet, e-commerce is very popular in the consumer behaviour. From the Internet, we can learn how to do the e-transaction and purchase from the net. Human tend to depend more on online convenience and along came another revolution of crime and security issue where some unethical users commit acts of crime on the World Wide Web. Every unprotected online computer can be affected with the viruses, malware, adware, hackers’ attacks and Trojans. There are several online security risks that can lead the users to serious monetary loss, information thievery and the attack on their computer.

The best way to overcome those problems is to use one of the many antivirus, antispyware, and firewall programs on the market; beside that also make that no anyone will ask for your password, account number, or other log-in information via e-mail or instant message. Beside this, to protect our data is safe we also can have an antivirus program to scan the entire computer for viruses. Even though most antivirus programs have an auto-protect feature that should, theoretically, prevent the insertion of a virus onto our computer, because it’s still a good idea to scan our computer periodically in the event the automatic protection feature missed something. Moreover, we can scan our computer once per week.

Furthermore, The solution for us how to protects our data for the online security, we need to uses the security issues to help us to protect our data, such as Authentication, Authorization, No repudiation, Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.

No comments: