Unit 2 - Section 13 - Safety and security of ICT systems
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- Safety and security of ICT systems
- Threats to ICT systems
- Employees
- Malpractice: When an employee goes against the company ICT code of practice
- Human Error
- Crime: When individuals or organisations break the law by using computers to illegally access computer systems
- Viruses
- A piece of malicious software that replicates itself and is used to corrupt and delete files
- Spyware
- Reasons for security breaches
- Personal gain, e.g a student chnaging their grade
- Financial gain
- Sabotage
- For the satisfaction, trying to show off to others
- Controlling threats
- Passwords, deny access to all unauthorised users
- Firewalls
- Data encryption
- Conventioanl encryption
- Digital signatures, used to verify that a document is genuine
- Secure Secret Layer
- Employees
- How are ict systems protected?
- Hardware measures
- Software measures
- Procedures
- Legislation to protect ICT systems
- Data Protection Act 1998
- Regulates how personal data is used and protects data subjects from the misuse of their personal data.
- Gives people the right to see what data organisations have about them.
- Computer Misuse Act
- The act identifies three specific offenses:
- Unauthorised acces to a computer just to prove you can gain access, not to commit any further offenses
- Unauthorised access with the intent to commit further offenses e.g obtaining personal data.
- Unauthorised modification of computer material
- The act identifies three specific offenses:
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
- Data Protection Act 1998
- Threats to ICT systems
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