Blog Entry 7.1

The five most common security threats to a computer system are accidents and natural disasters, employees and consultants, links to outside businesses, outside intruders, and viruses. For the cabin rental company accidents and natural disasters may be common so in the case of a power outage or any other disaster the constant backing up of information will take place within the company and the storage of important databases will be stored off site away from any disaster that may take place at the company. Employees and consultants will sometimes try and share information with rival companies so in order to prevent this from happening in the cabins, the use of biometrics will be used and employee ID cards for authorized access to any information that may be important to prevent unauthorized access of data. The info shared with links to outside businesses will be conducted using secure firewalls and the virtual private network using the internet to share data, these firewalls and VPNs will prevent the access of data from other rival companies trying to access the info of the cabins. Outside intruders can harm a computer system and the biometrics will be used after hours of the company and photo ID badges will be used and the cabins with security cameras and gate access to the information building in order to keep secure data from being accessed. Viruses will really harm a computer system. In order for the cabins to keep this from happening Norton Anti-virus software will be installed on every computer in the system and emails that may contain viruses will not be access to open the files.