Btec Business Level 3 Unit 3 P1

P1 -
Personal firewall: almost all computers do contain firewall program, it's important to keep firewall program on to protect the computer because it will help to protect your computer from unwanted viruses and hackers.

LAN and hardware firewalls: if you have a LAN and use NAT (Network Address Translation) software you can run the firewall automatically with NAT and this will protect your other machines which associates with your computer.

Anti-virus software: is important to have anti-virus software installed in your computer to protect your computer from viruses, bugs, worms, spam, Trojans which can be downloaded from the internet files/emails and spam. The other thing is important to avoid downloading any files/folders and email attachments from the …show more content…
These things are Internet Service Providers (ISP), Web hosting services, Domain structure and Domain names. An ISP is what lets you gain access to the Internet for any individual user with a connection.
There are some popular ISP’s:
• Virgin Media
• Sky Broadband
• TalkTalk (AOL)

Web hosting -
A Web hosting service is where a type of website has to be uploaded to a web server in order to appear on the World Wide Web. Many ISP’s do offer types of web hosting as a part of servicing to different clients. Web hosting companies provide you with the chance to put your website on to the web. It provides you with the web space on the server.

P3 –
The uses of websites in organisations –
One example of a customer facing website is E-Commence, These websites are used for things like online supermarkets, and other famous shops that lots of people want to know about. These are used to purchase goods online, this is very efficient because people cannot always be bothered to go to the shops, or may not have time. So this could increase purchases for the company, so they would make more money from people also buying online, when they wouldn't normally go to the

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