SYSTEM SECURITY

SYSTEM SECURITY

1. Social Engineering : This is where people use their social skills to get unauthorized access or to acquire certain info or details

   • Phishing usually involves sending emails to somebody in the attempts of possibly getting their details or getting them to click a link

2. SQL Injection is where an unauthorized user tries to break in to a network by trying to alter the code or to find loop holes in the code to gain unauthorized access

   • However this can easily be prevented if the program is robust enough and well coded for every situation and outcome.

3. Denial of service attacks are where a load of different accounts or devices make requests simultaneously to a particu;lar server causing it to crash and be overloaded

4. Data interception and theft

   • This can be prevented by using encryption which means unauthorized users trying to access your data cant do so without a key to make sense and decode the encrypted data

5. Brute force attacks

   • Trial and error logins
   • Ways to protect against these attacks is by having secure passwords with nubers and symboks

6. Anti Malware software checks through your files and data looking for anything suspicious and if it finds any thing that seems off it will be quarantined so it doesnt replicated and then will be checked or discard depending on whether it is or isnt infected