A threat is an incident or an action
which is unintended or deliberate
that results in disruption,
downtime or data loss
Internal
threat
Caused by an incident inside an
organisation
External threat
Caused by an incident outside an
organisation
Hacker
A person who looks to seek out and
exploit these vulnerabilities
black hat: they try to inflict damage by
compromising security systems
Attack
An attack is a deliberate actin targeting an
organisations digital system or data
Grey Hat: they do it for fun with no intent of
causing any harm
White Hat: working with the organisation to
strengthen the security system
Unauthorised Access
This refers to someone gaining entry without permission
to an organisation’s system, software or data. This
achieved by exploiting a security vulnerability
Why are systems attacked?
Fun/Challenge
Sense of achievement
Can be fun or a achallenge
Friends may give you more respect
Financial gain
Ransoms can be made to prevent
attacks from happening
Ransomware can be used to
encrypt a computer until
you pay
A payment is given to carry
out an attack on a
organization
Disruption
Attacks such as Denial-of-Service stop
websites working