Information security and its reflection on protecting the rights of direct broadcasting of sporting events in Egyptian sports channels

Document Type : Original Article

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قسم الإدارة الرياضية والترويح. كلية التربية الرياضية جامعة بنها

Abstract

Information and communication technology is revolutionizing the economic, political, social, cultural and sports sectors, and this revolution depends on the information on which human knowledge is based. Modern information technology allows the latter to be monitored, processed, and distributed in its various types, written, visual, and audio, by overcoming the barrier of information volume and reducing the time required for its distribution.

This technology led to a new way of working that facilitated the birth of a new concept, which is the concept of the information society, which aims at the intensive and optimal exploitation of information in various fields of life. This society is the result of the technological convergence between informatics, communication technology, broadcasting and television transmission. And it opened the doors of interaction between several dealers and recipients at the global level. Through this wide openness in the fields of communication, we had to know how to preserve this information transferred from one side to another, and from here the information security arose. (17:27)
Since information security depends clearly on the standards and procedures taken to prevent information from reaching the hands of unauthorized persons through communications, to ensure the authenticity of these communications through a set of specific activities such as encryption security, transmission security, and those related to confidentiality, to ensure that information is protected from unauthorized disclosure, Identity checks to ensure that a person is authorized to receive information of a specific classification or to verify the source of that information. (1:18)

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