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Threats to the safety of computer systems take many forms such as: Whitecollar crime, natural, disasters, vandalism and carelessness. - Give one way as to how each...

      

Threats to the safety of computer systems take many forms such as: Whitecollar
crime, natural, disasters, vandalism and carelessness.
- Give one way as to how each of these forms of threats can be controlled

  

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Kavungya
(i) White Collar Crime- Enforce personnel security e.g.
- No one person should be wholly responsible as system administer
- Introduce computer audit trails
- No one person should be in one department for a long time. Purge
employees
(ii) Natural Disasters
- Floods, computers rooms should not be installed in basements
- Lightening, Use UPS, surge protectors and the like
(have backups that are well kept safely away from the computers site,
have a contingency plan).
(iii) Vandalism
- Enforce personnel security e.g. restrict building access
- Secure computer systems to desks, reinforce doors, windows
- Introduce alarm system, CCTV systems
(iv) Carelessness
- Avoid food, drinks into the lab
- Have backups incase of unintended delete operations
- Have undelete utilities
Kavungya answered the question on June 25, 2019 at 08:45


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