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Ans. In the present century, information is acting as power. If the relevant information of the business reaches into wrong hands, it may create a lot of loss for the company concerned. There is a risk of enroute being stolen or modified by wrong people for their selfish motives. It is exposed to the risk of VIRUS and hacking. VIRUS stands for Vital Information Under Seize. Installing and timely updating antivirus programmes and scanning the files and disks with them provides protection to the files, folders and systems from the attack of virus. Another risk involved is interception of data in the course of transmission. To protect data against this, cryptography is used. Cryptography refers to the art of protecting information by transforming it into an unreadable format called 'cyphertext'. Thereafter only those who have a secret key can decrypt the message into 'plaintext'. It is like coding and decoding.
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