Threats

Threats-

When we spoke of the  types of attacks we might encounter, in the  "Attacks"  earlier  in this chapter, we discussed some of the  things  that  have the  potential to cause  harm  to our  assets. Ultimately, this is what a threat is-something that has the potential to cause us harm. Threats tend  to  be  specific  to  certain environments,  particularly in  the  world  of  information security.  For example, although a virus might be problematic on a Windows operating system, the same virus will be unlikely to have any effect on a Linux operating system.