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This 8 page paper discusses some of the issues that confront Webmasters, systems administrators and others who use the Web and need to keep information secure. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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trying to get personal information and other problems arising. This paper discusses how to provide security on the Web. Discussion Numerous sources tell us how to protect ourselves when we
use the Web: if were buying products, use sites that we know are secure; never give out personal information; beware of phishing scams; dont click on links in emails and
so on. In addition, people who work on networks should change their passwords frequently and use terms that others cannot guess easily. All of these are helpful "tips." But a
search for "security on the web" returned a great deal of information on keeping entire systems secure, so this paper deals with both individual security measures and those more suited
to larger concerns. When it comes to individuals using the Web, the University of California at Berkeley has a number of hints on how students and other users can keep
their computers and private information secure. First, as noted above, never provide personal information to a website unless the site is secure (Novogrodsky, 2006). Problems arise because most information sent
from an individual to a website is not encrypted, which means that its possible for that information to be intercepted and used by people "with malicious intent" (Novogrodsky, 2006). If
the information is innocuous, this may not be a problem, but it can be trouble if the information is sensitive, such as a credit card number or Social Security number
(Novogrodsky, 2006). To keep this information secure, "modern web browsers allow you to connect to web servers via a secure (encrypted) connection" (Novogrodsky, 2006). All legitimate e-commerce web sites, such
as banks, stores, and other service providers, and other sites that contain restricted information (such as medical or human resources sites) are secure (Novogrodsky, 2006). The way a user can
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