Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
table 13.2 threat Space Categories and examples (Continued)
Threat
Threat Agent
Kinetic Threat
Incident
Telephone; public
switched telephone
network (PSTN)
CO and IXC nonredundant service with
many single points of convergence
March 14, 2008: T3-seeking backhoe
inds its target; service lost for 6 hours.
equipment
Server
Application server with no hard drive
redundancy
Hard drive failure
Router
No policy to keep router OS versions
up to date
Route table corruption
Ethernet switch
No component redundancy policy on
critical LAN segments
Power supply failure
Etc.
