"Chapter Ten "Accessing the Internet in a Legal and Safe Manner

Chapter Ten
Accessing the Internet in a
Legal and Safe Manner
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10-1 Restricting Access
There is no quality control on the information that can be accessed via the
Internet. Depending on the circumstances, it may be necessary to restrict access
to specific information. For example, parents may want to prevent their
children from visiting adult web sites or chat rooms with undesirable discussion
topics, hospitals may restrict specific types of patient information to hospital
staff, or e-commerce transactions handled by credit card may be limited to only
the Accounts Receivable staff for processing.
Firewall software is used to control access to resources on the network from
outside, but can also control access to Internet resources. Many networks also
have built-in security features that can be set up to protect the server from
unauthorized access by either internal or external users. For the home or school
user, there are several companies that provide special software to restrict access
to the Internet, or at least to certain types of sites on the Internet. These
software programs are Internet filter software that can be used to block access
based on keywords entered into the software