Security Hygiene

Secure Your Web Browser

The Web browser is used to gain access to information and also resources on the World Wide Web. It is a software application used to trace and display web pages. The main purpose of a web browser is to bring information resources to the user. The process begins with uniform resource identifier (URI) or uniform resource locator.

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

Consider an example of the URL : https://csia.iitd.ac.in/
Each URL is divided into different sections as shown below
https:// - In short, https means the secure hypertext transfer protocol and the file is a web page and every time you don’t need to type the http, it is automatically inserted by the browser.
csia – site name
.iitd–It is one of the domains name, which is basically the organisation name.
Other domain names are .com (commercial organization), .net (network domain) etc.
(The organization address and location of the organization address are known as the domain name).
ac.in –suffix or global domain name shows the type of organization address and the origin of the country like the suffix ac.in indicates a company in India.
Generally a web browser connects to the web server and retrieves the information.Each web server contains the IP address, and once you are connected to the web server by using http, it reads the hyper text mark-up language (HTML) which is a language used to create a document on World Wide Web in which the same document is displayed in the web browser.
In short, a browser is an application that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web.

How to Secure Your Web Browser

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Mozilla Firefox is a popular third-party browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux. To learn how to keep your information safe and secure with Firefox's private browsing, password features and other security settings, visit https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox/privacy-and-security.

Apple Safari

Apple Safari is installed on its line of computers, tablets, and phones. For information on the Safari’s security settings on Apple devices, visit https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265. For information on Safari installed on computers, visit http://help.apple.com/safari/mac/8.0/ and select “Privacy and security” on the menu.

Google Chrome

In 2012, Google Chrome became the most widely used browser worldwide, according to Stat Counter and other sources. For more information on Chrome’s security, safety and reporting features, visit https://support.google.com/chrome#topic=3421433 and select the options displayed under the topic