Explain the difference between a threat and a vulnerability and how business need to protect against each type. Your initial response is due by Thursday 11:59PM. It must be at least 250 words and hav
Difference between a threat and a vulnerability
Threat and vulnerability are the most commonly mixed up security terms (Bergstrand, Mayer, Brumback & Zhang, 2015). It might be unreasonable to get people who are outside the security business to comprehend the difference between threat and vulnerability, implying that the terms can be used incorrectly. The difference between the terms are described below.
A threat refers to the newly discovered incident with the potential of doing harm to the system. The threat has the capability of doing harm to the entire organization (Bergstrand, Mayer, Brumback & Zhang, 2015). Basically, there are three types of threats. First, natural threats which include tornado and floods. Second, unintentional threats that include an employee assessing a wrong information. Lastly, intentional threats that include adware, malware and spyware (Lamont, Swift & Abrams, 2015). Viruses and worms are also grouped as threats because they have the ability to harm the organization when the organization is exposed to automated attack.
On the other hand, a vulnerability is a known weakness of a resource or an asset which can be exploited by the attackers. The above implies that a vulnerability is an issue that is known such that it can allow an attack to be successful (Lamont, Swift & Abrams, 2015). For example, consider members of the team who resigns, and the leader of the team forgets to disable their credentials from the credit card of the company. This implies that the company is left open to both unintentional threats and intentional threats. But most vulnerabilities are often exploited by the attackers who are automatic and not human typing (Bergstrand, Mayer, Brumback & Zhang, 2015).
References
Bergstrand, K., Mayer, B., Brumback, B., & Zhang, Y. (2015). Assessing the relationship between social vulnerability and community resilience to hazards. Social indicators research, 122(2), 391-409.
Lamont, R. A., Swift, H. J., & Abrams, D. (2015). A review and meta-analysis of age-based stereotype threat: Negative stereotypes, not facts, do the damage. Psychology and aging, 30(1), 180.
