Keeping Data Secure

Keeping Data Secure

1. Physical Barriers

   • Turn off computers
   • Lock your laptops to a secure object like a heavy desk
   • Put your servers and other important equipment in a locked and air-conditioned room
   • Make your offices secure with security passes for access to important areas of the building to avoid people from other copmanies from walking in and stealing infomation
   • Put systems in place e.g. fire prevention or carbon dioxide fire extinguishers

2. password protection

   • make sure password is strong

3. Anti Virus Software

   • A famous virus that caused lots of problems around the world was the I LOVE YOU virus.
   • Software like SOFOS, Symmantec and AVG can protect your computer from viruses that could ruin your business.

4. access levels

   • Users can be given certain access levels to different folders on a computer or server
   • Only let certain people see important files and folders.

5. Firewall

   • This is a piece of software that monitors all data entering your network and blocks anything that it thinks is harmful

6. Encription

   • Encryption uses algorithms to encode data that you send across the internet in to a format that can only be read by someone who has the same key

7. Back up and recovery

   • School backs up all your work. Every night,it copies all your work on to external hard disks. These are held off-site so that if anything happens to school, once the hardware is replaced, your work can be copied back on to the server
   • Another scenario might be that some of your work goes missing on Thursday night. You notice this in your Friday lesson
   • You can go to the ICT office and ask them to restore your work from Thursday morning. ICT put the relevant external hard disk in to the server and copy the files back to your area

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