Risks when using IT technology.

What Is Cyber Crime

Cyber crime is a crime being committed by the use of technology, i.e: hacking, using technology to cause malicious damage or tampering with other systems files. Cyber crime and other 'hacking' related crimes are serious problems that require in-depth study and serious consideration. While trying to find legislative solutions to, say, criminalising hacking, governments are in fact also enhancing their control of the Internet and promoting surveillance in the name of preventing "cyber-crime," "information warfare" or protecting "critical infrastructures." Cyber crime can include anything to do with malicious actions that are caused by someone using a computer, for example: hacking, phishing, piggybacking, the word: cyber, is a computer term.

Managing the risk of Cyber crime

Managing cyber can be as easy as installing anti-virus software, firewall, or anti-spy ware. The secure a computer is, it is less likely it is to be attacked by hackers.

What is Communications Sabotage?

This is referred to as the corruption of communications between two or more computers, communications such as: email, an enmity could attempt to stop a recipient from receiving information. Managing the risk of Communications Sabotage Keeping your emails secure can be done by means of installing anti-spyware/spam on the computer, and protect against key-loggers.

What is Denial of Service attacks?

Denial of Service attacks are when a certain service that was meant for a particular purpose or audience/customers is made unavailable or is disrupted in some way.

Managing the risk of Denial of Service attacks

To stop this from happening, the files and folders of the computer should be protected by a password, or encrypt them.

Firewall

A firewall is a protective barrier against malicious hackers that try to infiltrate the internet and use Trojans to gain control of another computer's files.

Access control

Physical access of a person may be allowed depending on payment, authorization, etc. Also there may be one-way traffic of people. These can be enforced by personnel such as a border guard, a doorman, a ticket checker, etc., or with a device such as a turnstile. There may be fences to avoid circumventing this access control. An alternative of access control in the strict sense (physically controlling access itself) is a system of checking authorized presence, see e.g. Ticket controller (transportation). A variant is exit control, e.g. of a shop (checkout) or a country.

Disaster recovery

This is known as the recovery from a catastrophic event which has wiped out a computers files