People interact directly with computers in many fields in our daily life.ICT help people in managing several sectors.But we have threats to computer such as viruses and natural disasters.
a.Name 4 main sectors that used in ICT in their management.
~ Education
b.State two differences between worms and viruses.
Worm ~Operates through the network
Virus ~Spreads through any medium
c.There are six types of security measures that can be used to protect our computer.Explain what is
a.Cryptography
* Cryptography is a process of hiding information by altering the actual information into different representation, for example, an APA can be written as I? X.
Almost all cryptosystems depend on a key such as a password like the numbers or a phrase that
can be used to encrypt or decrypt a message.
The traditional type of cryptosystem used on a computer network is called a symmetric secret key system.
b.Firewall
* Firewall is a piece of hardware or software which functions in a networked environment to prevent some communications forbidden by the security policy.Firewall implement is a security policy.It might permit limited access from in or outside the network perimeters or from certain user or for certain activities.