LO1 Activity-Network Security

• What is Network Security?

It is designed to protect your network and its data from multiple layers of breaches and intrusions with hardware and software solutions. It also a process of strategizing a defensive approach to secure data and resources over the computer network infrastructure against any potential threat or unauthorized access.

• Advantages and Disadvantages of Network Security.

Advantage:

-To keep your computer from getting viruses or hacked

-To prevent cyber attacks

-Securing confidential information

-To deny program from certain resources that could be infected

Disadvantage:

-Firewall can be difficult to configure correctly

-Incorrectly configured firewalls may block users from performing certain actions on the Internet

-It makes the system slower than before

-Need to keep updating the new software in order to keep security up to date

• The importance of Network Security.

-It helps to protect your workstations from harmful spyware and to ensure that shared data is kept secure.
-A good network security system helps businesses reduce the risk of falling victim of data theft and sabotage.