Virus, Worm, and Trojan Threats
Top Threats
Symantec Endpoint Protection is installed to every Agency workstation and server
to defend against attack.
IT's first line of proactive protection is
an "informed" employee who can identify and avoid high-risk web environments and attachments.
It all starts with the employment of one's common sense.
When opening email or surfing the web never click on unexpected email attachments and
avoid downloading free software applications to include unfamiliar anti-virus applications.
Learn to identify a bogus virus and/or operating system alert window from an
authentic virus and/or operating system alert window.
Acquiring simple techniques to avoid such pitfalls will enhance the integrity of
the existing
computer security system. Please take time to read some of the articles provided
in the Agency knowledge-base located below.
Your professional and personal computing environments will benefit.
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Copyright Law
Employees of Northwest Passage are bound by company policy and United
States copyright laws to observe rulings protecting works holding
copyright licenses. It is the obligation and responsibility of
each Northwest Passage employee to ensure copyright laws are adhered to when
non-agency works are selected for replication.
Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States
(title 17, U. S. Code) to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including
literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This
protection is available to both published and unpublished works. Section 106
of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive
right to do and to authorize others to do the following:
- To reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords;
- To prepare derivative works based upon the work;
- To distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by sale or
other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
- To perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and
choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual
works;
To display the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and
choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural
works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual
work; and
- In the case of sound recordings, to perform the work publicly by means of
a digital audio transmission.
In addition, certain authors of works of visual art have the rights of
attribution and integrity as described in section 106A of the 1976 Copyright
Act.
It is illegal for anyone to violate any of the rights provided by the copyright
law to the owner of copyright. These rights, however, are not unlimited in
scope. For more information about copyright law please click the ...more
link.
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Software Piracy
Software piracy is a serious matter. Besides violating the law and the intellectual rights of
software authors, counterfeit software can seriously damage your PC and compromise its security.
Respecting intellectual property rights laws benefits everyone. It strengthens economies, creates job
opportunities, protects honest workers from losing their jobs to criminals, stimulates technological progress,
and gives customers the genuine software experience they deserve while protecting them from becoming victims.
This issue has become so serious that organizations like Business
Software Alliance (BSA) and Software & Information Industry
Association (SIIA), two leaders in software protection, are now offering
substantial rewards for information leading
to the arrest and conviction of software pirates.
Pirated software is usually procured through the sharing of legally purchased software or via counterfeit
software purchased on bogus web sites or classified ads. The counterfeit may be a good copy of the original,
but it's more likely to be defective and dangerous.
It is important to understand the real risks associated with software piracy. By using counterfeit,
unlicensed or pirated software you are putting yourself and the Agency at risk.
For more information about software piracy please click the ...more link.
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