With the ever-increasing usage of Internet, numerous activities take place in your computer and it can be for either good or bad. These activities vary from identity theft to people who hack into computers and steal private passwords, documents and files. The fact is that everything is online and opens us to these frauds and makes us victims, unless you have taken the necessary steps to protect your computer.

In this tutorial, we will discuss how to use Internet in a safe and secure way, and the precautions that we need to take in order to protect ourselves from the open environment of Internet.

Audience

This tutorial has been prepared mainly for those professionals that are within the IT industry and who are IT specialists, System administrators, Security administrators and in the other applicable departments.

This tutorial is intended to make the reader comfortable in getting started with Internet Security and its various other functions.

Prerequisites

It is a basic tutorial where the reader can easily understand the concepts explained with a simple knowledge of how a company or an organization deals with its Internet Security. However, it will help if you have some prior exposure of cookies, phishing attacks, spamming, setting up firewalls, antiviruses, etc.