At the same time I would also like to know the necessary measures to mitigate known or perceived treats. This is for a computer project.
Discuss three (3) threats to information security?agv
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Discuss three (3) threats to information security?antivirus software
The threats to computer security:
1. Virus
Today the term virus is often loosely used to refer to any type of malicious program, or is used to describe any 鈥榖ad thing鈥?that a malicious program does to a host system. Strictly speaking, however, a virus is defined as program code that replicates.
Of course, this simple definition leaves plenty of scope for further sub-division. Sometimes viruses are further classified by the types of object they infect. For example, boot sector viruses, file viruses, macro viruses.
Or they may be classified by the method they use to select their host. 鈥業ndirect action file viruses鈥?load into memory and hook into the system such that they can infect files as they are accessed. Conversely, 鈥榙irect action file viruses鈥?do not go memory resident, simply infecting a file (or files) when an infected program is run and then 鈥榞oing to sleep鈥?until the next time an infected file is run.
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