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COMPUTER SAFETY
08 AND SECURITY
Your Aim
to learn about:
Protecting Your Computer from Unauthorised Access How to Backup Your Important Files?
Other Maintenance Techniques Malware
Antivirus Firewall
Computer safety refers to the protection of computer-based resources, including hardware,
software, and data, against unauthorised access, misuse, theft, or physical damage.
PROTECTING YOUR COMPUTER FROM UNAUTHORISED
ACCESS
Maintaining the physical health of your computer is essential, but it is equally important to prevent
damage or misuse of your data, software, and hardware. Additionally, restricting unauthorised
access is crucial to protect your system.
One of the ways to prevent the misuse of data or software is authentication. Authentication is
the process of verifying a user’s identity before granting him or her access to a computer system.
In private and public computer networks (including the Internet), authentication is commonly
done through the use of login passwords. Knowledge of the password is assumed to guarantee
that the user is authentic.
Some of the authentication procedures are as follows:
Password Protection: Protecting your computer
using password is an essential step to make the
data of computer safe from unauthorised access.
A password is a word or collection of characters
used for user authentication to verify identity or get
approval to gain access to the computer. Strong
password typically includes a combination of letters
(both uppercase and lowercase), numbers, and special
characters, making it harder to guess. It's crucial to Password Protection
keep passwords confidential and update them regularly to maintain security’s.
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