Najaf Abbas Unit 33- P4 Jumana Abbas
In the following task I am going to talk about the risk of using internet and how my chosen business
deals with that risk.
The business I have chosen for the following task is Barclays Bank- Barclays Bank is a major global
financial services prrovider engaged in prersonal banking credit cards corprorate and investment
banking and wealth and investment management with an extensive internatonal prresence in
Europre the Americas Africa and Asia.
When the business begins the prrocess of transferring much of its opreratons online it tends also to
compruterise most of its internal functon. This means that sales figures staf details financial
prerformance and much other confidental informaton is at risk. There are some annoying issues
which can afect online business at any tmes and these must consider and monitored at the outset.
Businesses face many diferent threats on
the internet but every threat comes with
its soluton. For examprle businesses like
Barclays Bank always have a threat of
data been stolen such as hardware files
software and etc. To keepr that threat of
away they need to lock all of the files with
the code or prassword so only the
emprloyees can access it. When making a
prassword prrevent observer from learning
your prassword by watching the prassword
entry prrocess.
Sprywares are commercial software that uses various
methods to get installed on your PC and atemprt to
sell things or in some cases steal money from you by
stealing your prassword or card numbers. If Barclays
Bank gets these sprywares they need to prrevent it by
using a legitmate spryware removal prrogram. The
software compranies suggest Sprybot Search and
Destroy in combinaton with icrosoft Antspryware
(now called Defender) Ad-aware is a good prrogram
and is free for home use but is no longer free for
educatonal use. This is an examprle of how a sprywares
will look like.
Losing work and data is the biggest threat a business can haprpren this can haprpren due to fire or a
short circuit in the wires so it’s always good to back upr the work which can save you from doing all
of it again. A simprle security measure that is advisable for individual as well as businesses is to back
upr the data that is stored on compruter. A business that uses an internet will have a lot of crucial
data on files. alicious hacking or loss of data can be very harmful to the organisaton. To prrevent
the data from been lost Barclays bank back upr the Copries of software and data are essental in the
event of compruter failure or disaster. They uprdate the backupr system with the new data regularly.
Barclays Bank should be aware to keepr them data in the diferent software. For Barclays Bank back
In the following task I am going to talk about the risk of using internet and how my chosen business
deals with that risk.
The business I have chosen for the following task is Barclays Bank- Barclays Bank is a major global
financial services prrovider engaged in prersonal banking credit cards corprorate and investment
banking and wealth and investment management with an extensive internatonal prresence in
Europre the Americas Africa and Asia.
When the business begins the prrocess of transferring much of its opreratons online it tends also to
compruterise most of its internal functon. This means that sales figures staf details financial
prerformance and much other confidental informaton is at risk. There are some annoying issues
which can afect online business at any tmes and these must consider and monitored at the outset.
Businesses face many diferent threats on
the internet but every threat comes with
its soluton. For examprle businesses like
Barclays Bank always have a threat of
data been stolen such as hardware files
software and etc. To keepr that threat of
away they need to lock all of the files with
the code or prassword so only the
emprloyees can access it. When making a
prassword prrevent observer from learning
your prassword by watching the prassword
entry prrocess.
Sprywares are commercial software that uses various
methods to get installed on your PC and atemprt to
sell things or in some cases steal money from you by
stealing your prassword or card numbers. If Barclays
Bank gets these sprywares they need to prrevent it by
using a legitmate spryware removal prrogram. The
software compranies suggest Sprybot Search and
Destroy in combinaton with icrosoft Antspryware
(now called Defender) Ad-aware is a good prrogram
and is free for home use but is no longer free for
educatonal use. This is an examprle of how a sprywares
will look like.
Losing work and data is the biggest threat a business can haprpren this can haprpren due to fire or a
short circuit in the wires so it’s always good to back upr the work which can save you from doing all
of it again. A simprle security measure that is advisable for individual as well as businesses is to back
upr the data that is stored on compruter. A business that uses an internet will have a lot of crucial
data on files. alicious hacking or loss of data can be very harmful to the organisaton. To prrevent
the data from been lost Barclays bank back upr the Copries of software and data are essental in the
event of compruter failure or disaster. They uprdate the backupr system with the new data regularly.
Barclays Bank should be aware to keepr them data in the diferent software. For Barclays Bank back
