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Re: List of Information Security Threats
From: Meenal Mukadam <meenal.mukadam () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 20:38:25 +0530
Hello Ronish, I am not aware of any specific list for 'Threats'. But what I can do is make you aware of a broader scope of threats. Threats can be accidental or intentional. They can be classified into 4 main types: 1) Natural: Earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, dust storms, tornado, landslide, flood, electrical storm, lightning, heavy rains, drastic climatic change, etc 2) Environmental: Gas leak, toxic waste disposed in vicinity, neighborhood hazards, pandemic outbreak, contamination and related hazards, failure of water provision, fuel outage, drainage choke, etc 3) Technical: Power outage, IT systems failure, fire, system breakdown, problems due to manufacturing defect, threat due to malicious codes, etc 4) Human: Failure to provide basic civic amenities, road blocks, terrorism, war, spying, sabotage, theft, arson, hacking, immoral employee ethics, legal dispute, sudden and unexpected reduction in employee number (due to sickness/new job/leave/termination), threat arising out of unaware users (either usage or security unaware users), etc You can select those threats that pose a certain risk to your Organization's Information Assets. Hope this was of help to you. Regards, Meenal A. Mukadam On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:31 PM, <m.amit30 () gmail com> wrote:
hi ronish, my dear frnd in general threats are divided into two parts:internal and external but in more specific way they can be classified as:(1)communication & network threats (2) physical threats (1) communication & network threats include sniffing, poisoning (ARP & DNS) etc. (2)physical threats are again divided into two parts:hardware & software..hardware type include manufacturer error and natural disasters..software include viruses,worms etc etc. i also want to point out the most dangerous attacks: 1)DOS/DDOS(against availability) 2)social engg.(general but most dangerous) 3)man in the middle attack(against confidentiality) (its my opinion i don't know what other say on this but according to me these are the most dangerous attacks)
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