Information Technology Reference
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table 13.2 threat Space Categories and examples
Threat
Threat Agent
Kinetic Threat
Incident
natural
Weather
Tornado
Storms on July 7, 2007; tornado warning
in effect from 16:00 to 20:00
July 7, 2007: Tornados develop and
touch down in local area.Incident: July
7, 2007, tornado destroyed remote
building on campus X housing server
X; server lost completely along with
backup tapes.
Hurricane
Hurricane Isabelle formed in Atlantic
with probable East Coast landing.
September 14, 2003: Hurricane Isabelle
makes landfall and resulting looding
shuts down voice communications.
Ice storm
January 22, 2008: Winter storm covering
local area with 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 inches of ice
January 23, 2008: Ice storm affects Mid-
Atlantic, essentially shutting down D.
C.-Baltimore corridor, resulting in key
personnel being kept from work;
operations shut down for 36 hours.
Lightening; ire
Severe thunderstorms predicted for
August 5, 2008.
Lightening strike caused brush ire
within proximity of data center and
spread to roof. Fireighting efforts
caused severe water damage to three
key servers.
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