Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 6 Online Manual

As information technology has rapidly developed and as it has penetrated every aspect of human existence, the number of crimes aimed at breaching information security has grown.

Cyber criminals have displayed great interest in the activity of state structures and commercial enterprises. They make attempts at theft and disclosure of confidential information, doing damage to business reputations, breaching business continuity, and consequently breach an organization's information resources. These acts can do extensive damage to assets, both tangible and intangible.

It is not big companies alone who are at risk. Individual users can also be attacked. Using various tools, criminals gain access to personal data (bank account and credit card numbers and passwords), cause your system to malfunction, or gain complete access to your computer. Then that computer can be used as part of a zombie network, a network of infected computers used by hackers to attack servers, send out spam, harvest confidential information, and spread new viruses and Trojans.

In today's world, everyone acknowledges that information is a valuable asset and should be protected. At the same time, information must be accessible for a certain user group (for instance, employees, clients and partners of a business). This is why there is a need to create a comprehensive information security system. This system must take account of all possible sources of threats, whether human, man-made, or natural disasters, and use a complete array of defensive measures, on the physical, administrative, and software level.

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