Safety and security

• physical safety issues include:

  • spilling drinks.
  • electrical overload.
  • training cables
  • falling equipment
• electrical overload: Electrical circuit overloads are when too many electrical items are plugged into one socket causing more current to be put across an electrical wire or circuit it can handle.
• To prevent training cables cables can be placed inside ducts or under the carpet or flooring.
• E-safety is a term associated with the use of the internet and also with other means of using electronic media to communicate.
• E-safety refers to protecting everyone from harm while they are using new and developing technology so that they d not put themselves or others at risk.
• the hazard can be split into two types:

  • illegal or inappropriate content.
  • contact.
• illegal or inappropriate content includes:

  copyright issues

  plagiarisim

  inappropiate images

  social network software.
• contact hazard includes:

  • inappropriate contact with adults.
  • bullying
  • financial risk
• E-safety seack to protect children, young people and vulnerable adults from the adverse consequences that can be associated to the use of electronic media.
• Some search engines have safe modes to ensure that search results do not bring up inappropriate sites.
• search engine: a program that searches for and identifies items in a database to match the keyword(s) that you type in.
• personal data: data relating to a living individual: it covers any information that relates to an identifiable living individual.
• social networking sites: types of websites or services that allow you to interact with friends and family online and to find other people online who have similar interest or hoobies.
• social networking sites may rise problems such as:

  • cyberbullying
  • slander
  • abuse
  • explotation
  • etc...
• Cookies can be used to track your online browsing
• Cookies are also used to remember preferences for a web page.
• InPrivate browsing prevents data being stored about your browsing session.
• A Pop-up Blocker will disable pop-up advertisements that you see when using your web browsing software
• Tracking refers to the collection of your browsing data.
• The tracking protection feature willl identify and block trakers.
• before disclosing personal data:

  • ask yourself questions
  • use the built-in tools on your internet browser
  • instal antivirus and security software and keep software update.
• The built in tools on the internet browser include:

  cookies, do not track, InPrivate browsing, Location, Pop-up blocker, and tracking protection.
• Identify theft is a type of fraud where personal information is stolen and used to impersonate that person.
• malware is software that has been designed to sniff out personal information on a computer.
• Botnets are created using malware for sending spam emails or flooding a website with many requests for content that the server cannot cope.
• Hacking is any attempt to gain unauthorized access to data in a computer system.
• Security of data is concerned with keeping data safe and uncorrupted by restricting access to the data so that there is less chance of malicious damage to it.
• Security of data is also concerned with the recovery of data if it has been damaged.
• Information assets: valuable data that you wouldn't want to be stolen or corrupted.
• Hacking is maliciu¿ous damage caused by people who get into computer system when they have no right to access that system.
• effects of hacking include:

  • lose all your data
  • decreased privacy
• Things that can be done to protect data from hacking include:

  • use authentication(user IDs and passwords)
  • use data encryption
  • keep a copy of files
• Biometric data refers to records used to identify people.
• Biometric data are records that are used to identify people by physical attribute that does not change.
• Biometric data falls into two categories: Physiological biometric data and behavioral biometrics.
• Physiological biometric data relates to a physical aspect of a person's body such as a fingerprint or a retina scan
• Biometrical devices tend two work in one or two main ways verification or identification.
• For verification, biometric technologies perform a comparison of the data with a template that has previously been stored, such as, fingerprint scan, retina scan, or voice print.
• For identification, once an item of data is captured, the system will try to match the data with any existing item in the database.
• An example of identification biometrics is a database of fingerprints od known criminals.