Computer Security is the process of detecting and preventing any unauthorized use of your laptop/computer. It involves the process of safeguarding against trespassers from using your personal or office based computer resources with malicious intent or for their own gains, or even for gaining any access to them accidentally.

In this tutorial, we will treat the concept of computer security which can be a laptop, a workstation, a server or even a network device. This is an introductory tutorial that covers the basics of Computer Security and how to deal with its various components and subcomponents.

Audience

This tutorial has been prepared mainly for those professionals who are within the IT industry, working as IT specialists, System administrators, and Security administrators.

This tutorial is intended to make you comfortable in getting started with Computer Security and its various functions.

Prerequisites

It is an elementary tutorial and you can easily understand the concepts explained here with a basic knowledge of how a company or an organization deals with its Computer Security. However, it will help if you have some prior exposure on how to carry out computer updates regularly, setting up firewalls, antiviruses, etc.