Privacy Defended: Protecting Yourself Online

Chapter 11. Securing Your Standalone PC: Broadband Connections

As we saw in Chapter 10, “Understanding Your PC Operating System and Its Security Features,” many security features are inherent in each operating system, to greater or lesser degrees. Utilizing these security options is a definite necessity, but you might want additional security functions as well. As we have been continuously discussing, the easy access that consumers have to the Internet makes for an easy target. Internet service providers (ISPs) do not provide security features with the broadband connections they sell (Digital Subscriber Line [DSL], cable modem, and satellite); it is up to individuals to protect themselves. The term broadband usually refers to a connection that ...