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Physical Threats to Information Systems

The information system can be depicted as the collection of both the human and technical resources capable of providing computing, storage, and distribution as well as communication about the information needed by all the enterprises. The various types of information systems include management information systems and decision support systems. The threats to information systems depict the different kinds of risks that can lead to compromising of the information system and may be categorized as either technical or physical threats.

Reasons including natural disasters are a big threat to information systems. For example, Hurricane Irma alone was estimated to have cost $80 billion dollars in economic damages (White, 2017). The US had a real bad year for natural disasters in 2017. The estimated cost of all-natural disasters was $306 billion dollars, surpassing the previous record in 2005 of $215 billion. On the other hand, one of the biggest threats to security are the cybercrimes. A report funded by McAfee estimated that the annual cost of espionage and cybercrime was $445 billion USD (Nakashima & Peterson, 2014). Also, most of the breaches are the result of user errors. For example, those organizations who store their data in the cloud are subject to the most attacks. “90 percent of corporate data breaches in the cloud happen due to social engineering attacks which target customers' employees and not because of problems caused by their cloud providers.” (Spadafora, 2019). Social engineering is the main cause of data breaches and people usually fall victim to this just basically by being complacent, clicking on the links that may be malicious or opening up emails where they don’t know who the sender is. This can cause virus downloads, Trojans, ransomware, backdoors, and a myriad of other issues.

References

Spadafora, A. (2019). 90 percent of data breaches are caused by human error. Retrieved from

https://www.techradar.com/news/90-percent-of-data-breaches-are-caused-by-human-error

White, M. (2017, September 26). Top 10 Most Expensive Natural Disasters. Retrieved from http://www.businesspundit.com/expensive-natural-disasters/

Nakashima, E., & Peterson, A. (2014, June 09). Cybercrime and espionage is costing the global economy near half a trillion dollars annually. Retrieved from

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/report-cybercrime-and-espionage-costs-445-billion-annually/2014/06/08/8995291c-ecce-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4b3b33f5f4c7

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