Types and Categories of Threats to IT systems
The management information system helps in the production of all crucial information that is necessary for the effective operation of an organization. Management information system has been considered to be an important part of the control internal system in a given organization. The management information system focuses on the application the documents, various procedures, technology and the people, that the management accountants use in solving their business problems like product costing, service costing service or the development of a business strategy. There are various types of MIS security threats which includes; Hardware theft (servers, Laptop and Desktops theft.); Hardware destruction (Hardware can be destroyed by disasters, like fires, floods, and earthquakes. It can be destroyed by people as well.); Physical data device theft (Thieves can steal data storage devices. Hard disks, CDs, USB flash disks, laptops, desktops, and servers can all be stolen for the data they contain); Accidental release of physical data devices.); (Currie and Galliers, 25). Data destruction by software this the most common security threat in MIS. Programs secretly planted on machines can destroy data.
A virus is a self-replicating program that copies itself from machine to machine, usually over a network. Viruses spread by attaching themselves to other programs. They have various effects, from displaying harmless messages to erasing hard disks. Unlike worms, viruses focus on damaging local data (Oz, 19). A virus can be embedded in a Trojan horse. A Trojan horse is a useful program, like a game, that has malicious software deliberately embedded within it. There are other poorly written software which are vulnerable to an SQL injection attack.
MIS is security threats can be categorized in the following programs: