UNIT 15 WEEK 3 CLASS 2 LESSON OVERVIEW Pete Lawrence BTEC National Diploma Organisational System Security

Overview  Recap  Keeping systems and data secure  Physical Security  Biometrics  Software and network security

Recap  The topics covered last lesson focused on the Physical security issues which impact on the system security of an organisation or individual and the counter measures that you can put in place to help reduce their impact.

Keeping systems and data secure  Preventing a security incursion, like the attacks themselves, is a constantly evolving process. The security measures described in the next series of lesson are a sample of those in use and are an introduction to what you may be expected to use in the ICT industry.

Biometrics The technology of biometrics is constantly being developed and refined. Common technologies in current use are fingerprint recognition, retinal scans and voice recognition.

Biometrics, What does it mean Biometrics is the implementation of technology to use biological information about ourselves as a method of unique identification it comes form the ancient Greeks bios, meaning life, and metron, meaning measure.

Biometrics Fingerprint recognition Retinal scans Iris Scanning Voice recognition Other biometric technologies