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Internet Safety

Author:Indika Ranasinghe

Published: 2014-05-27

Due to unsecured internet surfing, everyday people loss millions of files, documents and programs. This will cause huge economic loss. Malware, virus and spyware should take main responsibility of main damages. No one still not calculate exact economic and productivity loss yet.

Education

Purpose of this article is where we start? In community after community, individuals and groups have sent out the alarm. Are we starting from legislation, or are we starting from kindergarten. Most of researchers agreed to teaching surf safe should start from kindergarten. It is mainly about simple way to introducing the internet, covers the rules for online safety and gets kids involved in thinking critically about the sites they visit.

Filtering the Content

Many organizations and schools use content filtering methodology for restrict internet usage. This can be done through software and hardware firewalls. In corporate environment this can successful. But personnel and home use it has some barriers. Computer literacy will affect when you try to restrict in home computers. In corporate environment there is Internet security expert will carry out those operations. On other hand many who use filters point out, is that using internet doesn’t guarantee that inappropriate material won’t get through.

Free access

Most important thing is not restrict access or censor. It should be proper usage. It is always advisable education rather than restriction.

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