COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND PROTECTION OF INFORMATION

The problem of information security is relatively new. Not all problems, connected with it have been figured out and solved up to now. The fact of great number of computer systems users means the definite risk to security because not all clients will carry out the requirements of its providing.

The order of storage mediums should be clearly defined in legal acts and envisage the complete safety of mediums, control over the work with information, responsibility for unsanctioned access to mediums with a purpose of copying, changing or destroying them and so on.

There are some legal aspects of information protection, which can appear due to not carefully thought or ill-intentioned use of computer technics:

· legal questions of protection of informational massifs from distortions;

· security of stored information from the unsanctioned access;

· setting juridically fixed rules and methods of copyrights protection and priorities of software producers;

· development of measures for providing the juridical power to the documents, which are given to the machines;

· legal protection of the experts’ interests, who pass their knowledge to the databases;

· setting of legal norms and juridical responsibility for using electronic computer means in personal interests, which hurt other people and social interests and can harm them;

The lack of appropriate registration and control, low level of work and production personnel discipline, the access of any unauthorized person to the computing sources create conditions for abusing and cause difficulties to their detection. In every computing center it is usual to set and strictly follow the regulations of the access to different official rooms for employees of any categories.

The main purpose of information protection is preventing from the leak, theft, distortion, counterfeit of information; preventing the threat to person's life and social safety, protection of the constitution and so on. The information is subjected to protection, when it may cause the harm for its owner, user or other person.

II. Read the text and answer the questions.

III. Give the main points of the text in 5-6 sentences.

UNIT 3

Part A