With today’s technology and changing environment of computing, resources for inf

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With today’s technology and changing environment of computing, resources for
information processing has taken on a new meaning and dimension. Almost all
computer installations are now “linked” to the Internet. Invariably such links has
caused concern for many companies. We are now looking at the upgrade of computer
systems at World Computers Inc. The company is a traditionalist in information
privacy, security and the application of new technologies. You are now a member of
this powerful team to turn the computing resources and scope into the modern arena.

QUESTION:

1. What software is necessary to ensure that they can operate in this secured
environment. [25 marks]

Explanation / Answer

As we are in such a robust disributed environment, there is a necessity to secure our system from unauthorized access. And there are many hacking techniques came by taking the advantage of world wide web, we should be careful when we are accessing website and downloading any data from third party environment. To protect our system from Virus and worms, we should have a robust software acts like protector and stop attackes from internet and to make the system more secure. There are many vendors providing anti virus softwares which should be installed in our system to make it more secure. And It is good if we activate firewall which allows limited and genuine websites into our system. The following are list of famous anti virus softwares those are currently available in market. 1. Mac fee 2. Norton antivirus 3. Kaspersky antivirus 4. Avira antivirus

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