Management Of Information Security
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Author: WHITMAN, Michael.
Publisher: Cengage Learning,
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Chapter 6, Problem 3E
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Three instances of threats to InfoSec:
The main three instances of threat which are not mentioned in the given chapter is as follows:
- Act of Nature:
- Apart from fire, flood, and lightening, there is a threat to a firm from extreme climate like heat wave.
- It can be called as a threat as it posses an added requirement to keep machinery and other equipemnts in the absence of which there can be adverse consequences...
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