User Safety

User safety is to be considered at all times by anyone in an organisation and is also recommended to be followed at home. User safety is when guidelines are put into place to prevent any users being at risk or personal data being exposed to the World Wide Web. For example if a user is working on a machine in the workplace and runs an application which has not been verified and authorised by their IT department, this is breaking the user safety policies. The fact that the application is not verified or is not allowed to be used on a work machine could mean that is has not being verified as being safe to use on the IT systems. This could lead to future harm to users, such as users in the organisation having private information leaked such as a personal address of phone number which could later on lead to identity theft.

There are ways to prevent users safety from being at risk, these solutions are:

·         Follow your IT department policy’s and guidelines carefully

·         Do not run unauthorised software on the IT system

·         Don’t download any untrusted files

·         Be responsible when browsing the web