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Curs Information Security

The document discusses key concepts related to information security including confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and risk management. It describes common security threats like viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and phishing. It also outlines strategies for protecting against these threats such as using antivirus software, firewalls, regular system updates, data backups, and encryption.

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Curs Information Security

The document discusses key concepts related to information security including confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and risk management. It describes common security threats like viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and phishing. It also outlines strategies for protecting against these threats such as using antivirus software, firewalls, regular system updates, data backups, and encryption.

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Conferentiar Univ. Dr.

Silviu Cojocaru
 Confidentiality – information cannot be
accessed by unauthorized individuals
 Integrity – data cannot be upgraded without
proper authorisation
 Availability – data are available when needed
 Authentication– ensuring data authenticity
during e-business processes
 Risk management is a process used for
identifying vulnerabilities and threats against
information resources of an organization
 Information resources = all the resources
used by an organization to reach its goals
 Most security incidents are generated by
users negligence and lack of knowledge
 Less than 20 percent of the incidents are
caused by application bugs or security issues
 Viruses
 Worms
 Trojan horses
 Phishing
 A virus is a computer program that usually
attaches itself to a legitimate program and
executes certain unwanted actions upon the
infected computer.
 Various spreading ways (memory stick, mail,
etc.)
 The first viruses date back in the 1980s (the
Palestinians tried an IT attack against Israel)
 A worm is seen as a different program
category from a virus, as the worm is able to
multiply itself within the infected computer
memory and to infect other computers.
 Criminal activity mainly aiming to steal
information (user name, password, PIN code
for cards)
 A Trojan horse is a program apparently
useful. Instead, it executes hidden damaging
functions.
 UPGRADED antivirus applications
◦ AVG Free
◦ Avira Free
 Firewall applications (they inspect the traffic
between computer and network)
 Constantly upgrading the operating system
and the applications
 Constant data backup (incremental backup)
 Very low cost of storage media (HDD, Memory
Flash, DVD)
 Confidentiality
 Integrity
 Availability
 Authenticity
 Viruses, worms, Trojan horses
 Confidentiality – financial damages for the
organization
 Availability – Mission Critical
 Integrity (for example data damaging within a
banking institution)
 Authenticity ( for example non-existent
electronic payment)
 Assumes altering a message or a document in
order to make its content unrecognizable
 Message encryption – a process to convert a
clear text into a code
 Decoding - the reverse process which, based
on certain keys or rules, changes coded text
into clear text
Internet Gmail service,
Yahoo MAIL
Internet Gmail service,
Yahoo MAIL

Data
interception
 Encryption protocol that ensures
communication security on the Internet
 Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) –
a combination between HTTP and SSL
Internet
 A series of nodes on the Internet that
communicate between themselves by using
an encryption technology
 Michael A. Banks – PC Confidential – Editura
ALL
 Securitate Deplina, Gh. Ilie – Editura UTI
 Multiple online security resources

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