Thursday, June 19, 2008

Security services

The following are services that you can use to secure your computer:

Anti virus software

An anti virus software is a computer program that searches for malicious or possible threats that may or may have already infected the computer. It neutralizes and eliminates such threats. Anti virus softwares nowadays, can combat threats more than just viruses but threats such as worms, phishing attacks, rootkits, trojan horses and other malware.

Kerberos

Kerberos is an authentication protocol that is mostly used in client/server applications, that makes use of secret-key cryptography, to make sure that the transaction from computer A to computer B or through a series of networks are secured.

Firewall

A firewall is a software program that can deny, permit or block a certain kind of computer traffic. It also regulates the traffic flow through the networks.



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