CHAPTER 4: THREATS
Chapter Overview
This chapter discusses the potential threats to your organisation, and describes the threats as people with motivations and their capabilities. When conversing with the business it is difficult to describe the threats and risks to a system using technical language. I was giving a presentation on the importance of website security to a business when I was asked, “Why would anyone ever want to attack our system?” I realised at that moment that although they understood the concept of website security I had failed to convince them of the need for it. By using the following technique of creating threat actors you can better convince non-technical people of the need for security as well as build an overall threat ...
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