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Unit 2: 6.2 - Risks
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Information security - L2
Risks and impacts
Task
We will spend the next few lessons looking at the risks and impacts of information security
What do you think of when I say risks and impacts of information security ?
Lesson objectives
- To understand the main categories of security breaches
- To understand that not all security breaches are malicious
- To explore different high profile cyber attacks
Revise, Recap, Review
Write down:
Three principles of information security
The two laws that protect intellectual property and unauthorised access of information
One principle of the data protection act
Unauthorised and unintentional access to data
Unauthorised:
Stuxnet (espionage)
Unintentional:
This could be as a results of an accidental access. It could be as simple as overseeing a printout/screen
In 2009, an individual from
RAF Innsworth in Gloucestershire lost a memory stick with 500 highly sensitive files, containing details of individuals' extra-marital affairs, debts and drug use.
Intentional destruction of data
Accidental loss of data
Viruses and malware - Shamoon - discovered in 2010. Steals data, and then overwrites all of the files on the computer making it un-usable.
2017 NHS encryption ransomware
Targeted malicious attacks - Sony PlayStation network - 2011 - DDOS!
Intentional data tampering
Hacking - In 2013, the associated press' twitter account was hacked by Syrian hackers who reported that the white house was under attack and Barack Obama was injured.
This led to a 150 point drop in the stock exchange.
Human error - accidental deletion of files, destruction of backups, destruction of equipment......
Equipment failure - physical failure of storage medium - no backups