AN OVERVIEW OF INTERNET SECURITY
1.0 INTRODUCTION Internet security is an essential part of information technology or rather computer security to be more direct. It is quite related to the internet. It always involves the browser security which is the application that views HTML files over the internet. It always involves the browser security and also network security on a general level as applied to operating systems which are a part of the application layer system. The goal of internet security is to establish rules and procedures which are used to check against attacks over the internet. The internet being a network of many different networks, it is an unsecure channel for information exchange. Hence, there is a high risk of intrusion and fraud. Methods have been developed mitigate all these threats to the data over the transmission channels. Such methods as encryption have been taken to check the threats of sniffing packets, hacking and phishing. 1.1 EVOLUTION Data is the key item in business tra...