Threat
| 1. A Threat is an indication or warning of probable man-made or natural situation that can cause disruption to an organization’s operations or services.
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2. A man-made or natural situation or condition that can cause disruption to an organization’s operations or services.
(Source: Singapore Standard 540 - SS 540:2008)
3. A measure of how likely a source of threat is to succeed in their activity.
(Source: Australia. A Practitioner's Guide to Business Continuity Management HB292 - 2006 )
4. An indication of an unwanted incident that could impinge on the system in some way.Threats may be deliberate(e.g.wilful,damage)or accidental(e.g.operator error).
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(Source: OGC, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3) |
5. A potential cause of unwanted incident, which may result in harm to a system or organization.
[ISO/IEC 13335-1:2004].
(Source: Malaysia BCM Standard MS1970:2007)
6. A combination of the risk, the consequence of that risk, and the likelihood that the negative event will take place.
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(Source: ENISA - the European Network and Information Security Agency. BCM & Resilience Glossary) |
