Chapter 11, Problem 6Q

Program Plan Intro

Threat:

• A threat is a potential cause of an incident that may or may not happen, but has the possible to cause serious harm to a computer system, networks and so on.
• It include everything from viruses, Trojans, back doors to outright attacks from hackers, natural disaster, denial of service, and so on.

Explanation of Solution

Steps in preparing threat scenario:

The threat scenarios can be prepared using the following steps:

• Name the asset
  • An asset name is the name by which an asset is known.
  • An asset registers allow for an asset name to be recorded against each asset.
• Describe the threat
  • An organization must identify the possible threat scenarios for identified threats and vulnerabilities...