Network Security
- Reasons
- Prevent unauthorized access
- Stop people to access the wrong thing
- Prevent data to be stolen
- Authentication
- Checking person logging on is the person
- Knowledge factor
- Something the user knows
- Username, password
- Possession factor
- Something the user owns
- 2 factor authentication
- Send pin to phone/computer
- Biometric factor
- Fingerprint/iris scan
- Encryption
- When sensitive data is sent it is encrypted
- If intercepted could not be directly interpreted
- HTTPS
- Reasons
- Prevent unauthorized access
- Stop people to access the wrong thing
- Prevent data to be stolen
- Authentication
- Checking person logging on is the person
- Knowledge factor
- Something the user knows
- Username, password
- Possession factor
- Something the user owns
- 2 factor authentication
- Send pin to phone/computer
- Biometric factor
- Fingerprint/iris scan
- Encryption
- When sensitive data is sent it is encrypted
- If intercepted could not be directly interpreted
- HTTPS