Information filter:

It is a procedure taken to prevent the net users from reaching the nonsecured

sites. Any person can decide what type of information he wants to

hide.

The importance of information filter :

It protects the net users from the harmful and useless sites.

Protection should be available on the personal computers, school computers

and the software in the computers connected to the internet in school

laboartories

Questions

a- Choose the correct word:

- Data are the raw materials for………….

( information - processing - data )

- Information is the output of…………..

(Information - processing - data )

- The mental property is the ………….of the thought that carried out the -

programme.

(Protection- information- processing )

b- Fill in the spaces to complete the sentences

The mental property is…………..of the programme that carried it out.

On buying any programme, there are licence agreements for the programme as

paper print outs , …………….. and as a web page for the programme itself.

- Information has a great positive effect on the life as a whole represented

in…………..

- Information has dangerous negative effects, for example, satellites are used

in…………………….

c- Fill in the spaces using words from the list:

false- plentiful- World Wide Web- clarity – modernization- link- realismlogging-

data and information- entry- intended.

- Information transmitted by the foreign Mass Media may be ………..

- Information are distinguished by…………, precisness,

development,…………..,………….. and……………

- The internet is called the World Wide Web as it ………..between many

information nets and databases in most of the countries.

d: Answer the following questions -

In dealing with the internet, there are many dangers that threaten your computer.

Mention the ways that help you avoid these dangers?

- Mention some of the security dangres that you may face when you are connected

to the internet ?

e: Complete the following sentences -

Filtering information has a great importance for computer users as it ……..the

users from the harmful sites.

- Protection for computers should be available on……………., the school

computers and ……………………………

- Filtering information programmes are called…………………..

Data and information Security

Security means keeping the secrets of ( information, Data,

computers and the individuals who work in an organization or an institution.

The elements that should be protected

( Hardware )

The computer is

exposed to many

threats such as:

* Misuse

* Disorders

* Intended Corruption

Information Security is interested in the material components of the

computer so, we should do the following:

- We should devote a separate room for the computer with safety tools such

as fire extinguisher and a stabilizer for the electric current. We should select

the individuals who will deal with computers. The places chosen for

computers should have fresh air stream.

Data and information:

In using the computer, we should control the following:

* Data Entry

* The flow of Data

* Coding and encoding data

* The nature of the data available for each user.

(Software):

They are groups of orders that help us use the computer -

with the purpose of solving a problem or carrying out a task.

These programmes help the user in his work. They are the

(Operating System and application programmes).

Data and Information Security aims at keeping the programmes as they help

to:

……make sure that the programmes used are original.

…… control the areas of using the programme.

…….keep the secrets of data within the programmes.

(Computer Users)

The user is one of the primary elements we have to consider in the issue of

Data Security especially after the breakthrough in the scope of computer and

the wide spread of the internet and the nets. Data Security requires the

following:

- Defining the people who will scan data and deal with them.

- The nature of the data for each user.