A Review on Internet Security

Internet has been developed for at least ten years and it definitely provides a lot of benefits to users such as, saving time and costs especially in E-commerce areas. Nevertheless, every thing in this world has both sides of good and bad. It can bring you happiness but also the worries and suffers.

There are some deficiencies by using Internet. The possibility of its risk exposure is high and it will cause a lot of problems to all fields of users especially those who are dealing business by Internet. What are those deficiencies or issues of the internet that are so important to make people be so alert? What are the effects of lacking of Internet security? Will the effect cause a big amount of losses to users?

People are concerning about the internet security problem and this is the main issue that the whole world should focus on. Malicious software programs are increased with a high rate as compared to previous time. Computer viruses, worms, and Trojan horse are the threats of malware. They could destroy the programs and data as well as disrupt or even halt your computer networks operation. You can imagine that if your Pc has been disrupted, your whole entire files and data like those assignments could have been destroyed. You will be crazy definitely. So, what about those big companies and organizations? How much of losses that they could bear if that happen to them?

Besides that, spyware will install itself to your computer secretly and monitoring your web surfing activities, and even offering outsiders the possibility of stealing your personal identity and information. Due to this reason, there are people always report that their credit card numbers have been stolen and this makes them used to pay for the bills that are not consuming by them but under their account. If this happen to those who are doing online businesses, you can imagine that how broke they would be. Thus, there are still some people do not perform online transactions such as buying from net, because they are afraid of their privacy would be invading.

Definitely, the problem is dealing with the unsecured data. Some organizations are found that they are not doing enough to secure their data and it is dangerous of losing of sensitive data. When we register or sign up for email, forum, blog and others, there are personal information required such as name, date of birth, and password. We do not know that whether our private information are secured or they would be sold for others by the organizations.

Even though you have conducted plenty of preventions such as install anti-virus software, avoid using one password for all accounts that you create, and other security packages, we are still exposed to the risks because those cyber criminal groups keep on creating new tactics to hack in your computer system, spam your email as well as tapping Wi-Fi from the neighbourhood. @_@

Fortunately, International Multinational Partnership Against Cyber Terrorism (IMPACT) which has the best brains and facilities, being set up to help fight the cyber security threats. In addition, the corporation such as Symantec Corporation, TrendMicro and F-Secure will also be the partner of IMPACT to assist us how to defense against the cyber criminal. Although the internet security problems are increasing, we still have to access Internet because it is an important tool in our life. There are the responsibilities of all users to protect the data and information. All users should provide enough to secure and protect themselves regardless small companies, large organizations or personnel.

In a nutshell, I hope that internet security can be more improved and provide more integrity for users so that they can access it safely, trustily, and happily. Computers, software, programs, virus etc, all are created by human, all are human being. In this world, if a human could come out with one thing, another would also be able to contrast it. If the cyber criminal groups come out with new tactics, there would be someone can fight against it. ^^

Tuesday, June 17, 2008