Wednesday, August 15, 2018

The Necessity Of High Security Measures

By Harold Brooks


Security measures are taken as a precaution against any sabotage, theft or espionage. This is a great help in wading off any danger, injury or damage that may sometimes be hard to avoid. It may not always be easy to come up with a password to be used as a lock, to make lives easier, software was invented to be very helpful and this is the password generating software.

Software is a program or any operating information that is castoff by a computer. This is made possible by individuals who studied and are specialized in this field. These professionals are so intelligent they can create their own programs to make anything run. They are titled as Software Engineers, people who apply the principles of this specific engineering to its design, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of it.

Passwords are intended to be a lock that only authorized personnel have access to. This is to guard anything of value from a personal account online to a physical vault containing things of priceless values, sometimes used to store important documents and even money itself.

Though the information is based from the personal information of the individual, it does not mean that the lock would consist clearly of itself as a whole. Letters would be combined together with the addition of special characters and numbers at the same time.

There are general rules set up as a basis on how to make sure that the code being created is highly secure. Some of these rules include a password that should be made up of at least 16 characters. Characters have to be a combination of letters and numbers and would require an addition of any special symbols to make it more challenging.

However, no matter how challenging a password may be, some might still have ways to figure it out and this can be because of the negligence done on the part of the person who created the password. This critical phrases that serve as a lock are written by some individual and might be stored in a place that is easily accessed. The main reason why some would do this is because it might be hard for them to recall what they created thus writing it and storing it somewhere.

Laptops and hand held computers pose a potential security risk. One can steal the entire device, including all the data stored on the disk also any passwords that may have been saved. If an employee uses a laptop at a desk, the employee should take the device when they leave or at least have it secured to a permanent fixture with a cable lock.

Aside from all of this, one way on how some individuals might try to hack and get access to any private accounts is in a form of sending spoof emails or text messages. These are messages sent with an enticing content. Occasionally, this includes threatening statements making one to panic and give out info easily. These threats would often times refer to financial accounts. An example of this message would go like, please verify your personal information for the account not to be suspended.

One should remember that network security always start at a physical level. All the walls in the world cannot stop an intruder that has the capability to gain access to a network or a computer. So everything should be at a complete lock down.




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