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Overview of Security Issues Facing Computer Users
- Abstract
- Every security safeguard a computer user takes will reduce the number of people skilled enough to break into their computer. After all, there are a finite number of people who have the skill required to break into computer systems. Some are very skilled and patient and will be very difficult to stop. And some are not so skilled and rely on tools and applications developed by other people to do their dirty work. Fortunately the first group is a lot smaller than the second group. There are obviously hundreds of different things that can be done to increase a computer or network's defenses and not all of them are difficult or expensive to do. But every worthwhile security measure that is put into place reduces the number of people who are capable of breaking into that system.