Answer:
1. Human Error: an example is disregard to safety measures.
2. Compromises to Intellectual Property: an example is piracy of an organization's product.
3. Forces of Nature: an example is earthquake.
4. Information extortion: an example is coercion or blackmail.
5. Quality of service deviation: an example is an epileptic or poor power supply.
6. Industrial espionage: an example is unethical hacking of data.
Explanation:
A threat to an organization's people, information, and systems is basically any circumstances or events that poses a potential danger, damage or adverse affect to its smooth running.
These threats can be classified into six (6) categories and these are;
1. Human Error or failure: this are errors that arise as a result of having incompetent employees (slips and lapses) or mistakes stemming from the workers. <em>An example of human error is an employee that disregard safety measures. </em>
2. Compromises to Intellectual Property: this usually occurs when an intellectual property is stolen illegally from an organization. <em>An example is piracy of an organization's product.</em>
3. Forces of Nature: this is usually caused by a natural disaster. <em>Examples of forces of nature are flood, earthquake, fire etc. </em>
4. Information extortion: this arises when sensitive data about an organization is held through <em>coercion, bribery or computer hacking</em>.
5. Quality of service deviation: this would occur when there's a shortage in the quality of service received by an organization, contrary to what is expected or required. <em>Examples are poor power supply, poor internet service etc. </em>
6. Industrial espionage: this is as a result of loosing sensitive data to <em>unauthorized individuals or hackers.</em>
