External Threats: Groups and Examples

Physical Threats

  • Natural disasters: hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, etc.
  • Fire or arson
  • Terrorist threats: bombs, hostage situations, etc.
  • Hardware destruction & damages
  • Physical intrusion, e.g., vandalism
  • Sabotage, e.g., by company's rivals
  • Theft of sensitive assets/information

Network Threats

  • Sniffing or Eavesdropping
  • Snooping, authentication attacks, or hijacking
  • Spoofing
  • "Man in the middle" attacks
  • "Denial of service" attacks
  • SQL injection
  • Exploitation of weak passwords
  • Exploitation of weak encryption