Types of Security Threats
Business continuity planning related threats
- Disruptions
- Loss or reduction in network service
- Could be minor or temporary (a circuit failure)
- Destructions of data
- Viruses destroying files, crash of hard disk
- Disasters (Natural or manmade disasters )
- May destroy host computers or sections of network
Intrusion
- Hackers gaining access to data files and resources
- Most unauthorized access incidents involve employees
- Results: Industrial spying; fraud by changing data, etc.