SecurityArena

Definitions

SLAs (Service level agreements). Ensure that vendors provide the necessary level of protection.

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure). It is used to determine the expected lifetime of a device or when an element within that device is expected to give out.

MTTR (Mean Time To Repair). It is used to estimate the amount of time between repairs.

Security Musts. Obliged by law to obey certain safety requirements

Security Shoulds. Protection procedures that should be put into place to help protect the company from devastating activities and their results.

Categories of Threats

• Natural environmental threats. These include floods, earthquakes, storms and tornadoes, fires, extreme temperature conditions etc.
• Supply system threats. These include power distribution outages, communications interruptions, and interruption to other natural energy resources such as water, steam, and gas etc.
• Manmade threats. These include unauthorized access (both internal and external), explosions, damage by angry employees, employee errors and accidents, vandalism, fraud, theft etc.
• Politically motivated threats. These include strikes, riots, civil disobedience, terrorist attacks and bombings etc.