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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Threats

     A threat is an object, person, or other entity that represents  a constant danger to an asset. Management must have a detailed knowledge of the various kinds of threats the organisation would face. The Management must ensure that sufficient protection is given proper educating and training to people, and technology controls .

     A business firm can build more effective security strategies by identifying and ranking the severity of the potential threats to its act of securing the information. Consistent reviews and checks must be performed by the organizations to ensure the proper functioning of the counter measures for the threats.

Threat group 1: Inadvertent acts

  • Acts of Human error or failure.
  • Deviations is quality of service by service  providers

Threat group 2: Deliberate Acts

  • Acts of Espionage/ Trespass
  • Deliberate acts of information exortion
  • Deliberate Acts of Sabotage or Vandalism
  • Deliberate Acts of Theft
  • Deliberate spftware Attack
  • Compromises to Intellectual Property
Threat group 3: Acts of God

  • Force of Nature
Threat group 4: Technical Failure

  • Technical Hardware failure or errors.
  • Technical software failure or errors.

Threat group 5: Management Failure

  • Technological Obsolescence 

 

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