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Giving examples explain threats to data security

      

Giving examples explain threats to data security.

  

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Dominic
1, Force majeure: is an event or effect that cannot be reasonably anticipated or controlled by a company. For example data can be damaged or destroyed because of natural disasters (e.g. a fire, floods and earthquakes) or war.

2, Employees; may intentionally steal or damage company data such as client details or product information. They could use this data to their advantage such as selling this data to other competing companies. Employees can also accidentally lose or delete company data.

3, Service providers; involved in storing the data of companies on their servers can lose, destroy or steal valuable data. Loss of data may be intentional or accidental.

4, External individuals; can also gain access to a computer or network and steal, damage and delete the data.These individuals are often referred to as hackers.

Dominic M answered the question on May 16, 2018 at 07:47


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