Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) faces potential threats to their website such as hacking, data theft, and spam. To protect against these threats, RAD uses logins, encrypted passwords, and HTTPS protocol. However, their security protections could be stronger. UK legislation like the Data Protection Act, Computer Misuse Act, and Distance Selling Regulations mandate protections for online users, but few cyber criminals are prosecuted. RAD aims to comply with these laws and protect customers, but must continue updating their security methods as new online threats emerge.

1. Royal Academy of Dance
Potential Threats
Methods of Protection
Legislation

2. Royal Academy of Dance
• There are many potential threats to websites that sell products to the
general public.
• ‘Royal Academy of Dance’ (RAD) is a retail website which is used by
people around the world every day for performing items such as clothes,
badges, music and gifts.
• In a result of RAD creating a website to trade has a negative effect by opening them up to threats to
their website such as:
- Stealing data
- Hackers
- Taking over website
- Spam, phishing, pharming
- International stealing of data

3. Methods of Protection
RAD apply different methods of protecting there website and their customers
Hackers
What is it?: Hacking is to use technology to gain unauthorised access to data and
information.
Protection: one way to know you are protected on a website is by checking in the URL
that it turns to https: and also the bar goes green. to show trusted certificate. Unfortunately
RAD does not do this meaning that is less protective that other websites, such as Lloyds.
‘http’
‘https’ Changed
green
Although RAD is less protective than as it could be they do have a personal log in and
changeable passwords which are encrypted also stopping RAD workers from seeking your
information

4. Legislation
What is it?: Legislation is a law that is enforced to protect peoples
information and computer use for buying online.
There are three specific acts that RAD must apply to their website, to ensure
protection from viruses for themselves and their customers.
The Data Protection Act
(1998)
Computer Misuse Act
(1990)
Distance Selling Regulations
(2000)

5. The Data Protection Act
The Data Protection Act: The Data Protection Act is mandatory for any
company online and its shows that the company operates with
responsibility for it’s customers information
RAD on there website must produce information clearly before taking
the general publics data.
Users of the website must know:
– What the company is and there name
– What the data will be used for
– Who can access your data

6. The Data Protection Act
RAD also publish on their website offering more information to their customers:
The reason for the data protection act to be created was for a few concerns by the Government; such as:
- Who could see the stored information
- People could copy the information
- Was it possible to store information about a person without the individual’s knowledge or permission?
- Was a record kept of any changes made to information

7. Computer Misuse Act
What is it?: The Computer Misuse Act was formed to Illegalise
unauthorised access to computer use, preventing access to hacking,
viruses and stolen data.
The Computer Misuse Act has created three new criminal offenses:
-Access to computer material unauthorised data
-Commission of further offenses
-Unauthorised modification of computer material.
The penalties and punishments for these crimes range from 6 months in
prison fine £5000, max 5 jail and unlimited fine
Unfortunately it is very hard to catch these criminals and many people do
not get punished.

8. Distance Selling Regulations
What is it?: Distance Selling Regulations (DSR) set up in 2000 to
protect customers when shopping online. DSR makes rules for
customers who purchase items without face to face contact.
RAD must show clear information about the supplier, the goods to
the general public before they decide to buy the product.
They must also give customers time to return product without
receiving a fine in writing, this protects people from payment
fraud.

9. Distance Selling Regulations
This is what RAD publish on their website for customers before they
consider to buy a product.

10. Royal Academy of Dance
(RAD)
Legislation is in place to deter people
from committing crimes online however
very few people are prosecuted.
RAD aim to protect their customers
however their will be new threats due
to technology expanding, therefore
RAD must remain up-to-date which
their methods of protection.