Activity No:1 Period:Midterm Subject: 6INFOSEC Date: December 01, 2017 Score: ___/30

Topic: Intro to Information Security Instructor: Mababa, Jonilo C. Section: NW304

Name: _____________________________________

Activity details:
Lecture – Introduction to Information Security
Objectives
Understand the business need for information security
Understand the threats posed to information security and the more common attacks associated with those threats.

1. Give 5 out of 12 categories of threat. Define and give an example to that threat which is related to you as a
student.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
2. Given the following attacks, provide an example happened in real world.
a. Hoaxes
b. Brute Force
c. DDoS
d. Social Engineering
e. Pharming

3. Why do business needs an information security?