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Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online
3 Securing my digital information
Securing my digital information
What issues arise in doing everyday activities online? As we’ve already discussed, most of us rely on the internet for everyday tasks such as shopping, working, banking or social networking. We often do this without stopping to think about the security issues that might be involved.
Activity 4 Securing your information
Timing:Allow about 15 minutes
Choose one of the following activities and think about the main security issues that might threaten your chosen activity.
- Online banking – for example, to check the balance in your account or make a payment.
- Online shopping – think particularly about buying something from a new store that you don’t recognise and haven’t shopped from before.
- Social networking – think about whether you would add someone as a ‘friend’ if you hadn’t met them in person.
- Working from home – consider the need to transfer documents that contain confidential information between members of your team.
Questions to consider
Remember that earlier this week we classified security issues under three headings. We want our information to:
- be read by only the right people (confidentiality)
- only be changed by authorised people or processes (integrity)
- be available to read and use whenever we want (availability).