Information Systems Security

Today’s Internet is a worldwide network with approximately 5 billion users. It includes almost every government, business, and organization on Earth. However, having that many users on the same network wouldn’t solely have been enough to make the Internet a game-changing innovation. These users needed some type of mechanism to locate documents and resources on different computers and link them together across a set of connected networks. In other words, a user on computer A needed an easy way to open a document on computer B. This need gave rise to a system that defines how documents and resources are related across a network of computers. The name of this system is the World Wide Web (WWW), which is also known as ...

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