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Threats

Threats

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Threats

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- Oh my God, our computers and networks are under attack today. It's rare to find anybody anymore who doesn't hear terms like malware, for example, and worry about what do we do to protect our computers and our network. Now, we need to be careful here because the CompTIA A+ has a lot of questions about security. But they're going to be concentrating on your ability as a technician to protect either a single machine or a small office, home office network. So let's go ahead and take a moment. And let's get zen-like about how do we look at our security environment? To do that, we need to draw some circles. Here is an individual system. This could be my system at home. This could be my office computer. This could be my smartphone. I don't care what it is. But from a security standpoint, the first thing we do is we think about putting a nice little circle, a little shell around this thing of protection. So we're…

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