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This 10 page paper considers the different approaches to security within an organisation, how risks may be assessed and then counter measures taken as well as the risk reduced. The discussion includes issues such as the Athena Rules of Use sources of information as well as practical measures that can be taken. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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of the network to hackers or viruses. The first stage in considering any security programme is t assess the risks that are faced.
As we will see there are also many different tools that have been designed for risk assessment many of which revolve around contingency think, scenario planning and the collection of
information from different sources to assess the risks. In many ways the risks they are assessing may be irrelevant as it is the way in which they help that
will be important. There are also some misconceptions regarding the use of computers and their security concerning the risks that they entail.
One misconception has also accompanied this development, and this has been that the major factor the purchase of reliable hardware is seen as being key to reducing this risk. Although
this is important the evidence suggests that hardware failures only make up a minority of the disasters. Of 233 computer disasters tracked through out the world only 22 percent of
the disasters were hardware related (Stout, 1996). The rest of the disasters were accounted for by way of power surges, natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires and explosions, or other
security issues. A survey conducted in 1995 by ICR Survey Research Group regarding vulnerability of computers found that sixty six percent of respondents
found that they had suffered some sort of disruption of over an hour(Stout, 1996). When this was examined more closely, it was found that of those who had reported disruptions
on over an hour one in five (20%) were for a period of twenty four hours or more(Stout, 1996). This indicates that computer down time may be more common than
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