Application of watermarks in digital information in sports institutions(Original)

Abstract

Nowadays, the information security is a constant concern for all network users, and hackers constitute a threat to said security, which is a matter of utmost importance, evidencing the need to achieve adequate protection of information, to prevent its use, modification, recording or destruction by unauthorized users or ill-intentioned people, especially those that directly affect decision making, it is unquestionable that the field of new information and communications technologies provides a appropriate space, enabling security of digital information in Cuban sports institutions. The work was carried out at the University of Granma, where the watermarks were applied, to achieve this seven  informations from the period September - December 2023 were used. PolyMarking version 1 software was used to process the digital accounting information. The application of watermarks made it possible to protect digital information in the sports institutions, when traveling through the different channels of the network, many of them confidential, avoiding errors in the manipulation of said information, cyber attacks and identity theft.