What are the primary threats to information system security?

Answer 1

The primary threats to the security of information systems include the following:

Natural Disasters: The loss of supporting infrastructure includes power failures(outages, spikes, and brownouts), loss of communications, water outages and leaks, sewer problems, fire, flood, civil unrest, and strikes.

Accidents: This include inexperienced or careless computer users.

Employees and Consultants: This include people within an organization who have access to electronic files. Some of the common examples of computer-related employee sabotage include:

• Destroying hardware or facilities
• Entering data incorrectly
• crashing systems
• deleting data
• holding data hostage
• changing data

Links to Outside Contacts: Electronic information can be at risk when it travels between or among business affiliates as part of doing business.

Outsiders: Hackers and crackers either outsiders or insiders who break into computers without authorization to snoop or cause damage.