Computer ScienceCode 9618
Data Security
What this topic asks you to be able to do
- Explain how security, privacy and integrity, as terms applied to data, differ from one another
- Show an appreciation of why data must be kept secure, and why the computer system itself must be kept secure too
- Describe the security measures that protect computer systems at every scale, from one stand-alone PC up to a whole computer network
- Show a grasp of the threats that networks and the internet present to computer and data security
- Describe the methods available for limiting the risks that threats present
- Describe the security methods used to keep data secure