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safety and security
Cards in this deck (7)
- 1Malpracticewhen an employee goes against the company ICT code of practice e.g. leaving a workstation logged on creating the opportunity for an unauthorised individual to access their account.
- 2Crimewhen individuals or organisations to break the law through using computers to illegally access a computer system; e.g. to break in and change the payroll figures on the internal database
- 3Virusa piece of malicious code that is written by programmers and used to corrupt data and systems. it comes in different forms, such as Trojans, logic bombs and worms.
- 4Algorithmlist of instructions for solving a problem: in ICT and computer science, usually means a small procedure that solves a recurrent problem.
- 5Security attackany action that compromises the security of data held by the organisation
- 6User names and passwordsmost organisations use this as the basis for security of computers and networked systems. All employees have a user name and are expected to change passwords on a regular basis. The passwords on a regular
- 7security machanismmechanism that is designed to detect, prevent or recover from a security attack
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- AS level IT Flashcards on safety and security, created by Nile Bertram on 29/03/2017.
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