protection

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What is protection?
protection is when you put measures in place to make it so difficult for the attackers, so they give up.
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Fire walls-a type of protection
A firewall checks incoming and outgoing network traffic.
It scans the data to make sure it doesn’t contain anything malicious and that it fallows the rules set by the network.
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Anti-malware
Anti-malware is software that scans any file that is able to run a code.
If the code in your files matches the definitions, the files are quarantined-not used so then they don't infect anything else
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auto-updates
Auto-updates refers to software that automatically checks for available updates for the software you have on your computer.
Once it finds an update, the software can be set either to alert the user or to install it automatically.
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passwords
Ways to stop cyber attacks:

Secure passwords (password managers)
A maximum number of attempts to log in before an account is locked
CAPTCHA-pictures to prove it is not a robot.
Biometrics
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user information
Users on a network can be put into groups, with each group having a unique set of privileges:

Which network drives they have access to
Which printers they are able to use
What software they can use
Which websites they are allowed to access
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Fire walls-a type of protection

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A firewall checks incoming and outgoing network traffic.
It scans the data to make sure it doesn’t contain anything malicious and that it fallows the rules set by the network.

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Anti-malware

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Card 4

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auto-updates

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Card 5

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passwords

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