QUESTION

With the popularity of the Internet and its global acceptance as a business tool, the company is thinking firmly of providing email addresses and internet access to all its staff members, but management is not convinced yet on how these will benefit the company.

You are therefore required to submit a report to the management of the company explaining the goodness of the Internet as well as the various services available and how the company could benefits from them. You should however elaborate on the implementation of email and web services and you should also include the measures of security to be taken to ensure a proper usage of the technology so that the assets of the company are not as stake.

The following is a proposed structure of your report

• What is the Internet?
• Internet services in brief
• The WWW and its application
• Benefits and Implications
• What is Email?
• Uses and benefits of Intranet and Extranet
• Security: A word of caution