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