Name : Rajiv Gupta

Roll No. : N048

Subject : Information Technology for Organizations – Learning Dairy day 3 held on 17 th Oct

Faculty : Sanjiva Dubey

Learning from The class

 The lecture was focussed on Information Security threats and how to manage / avoid them.
The class started with some of the examples from the slides where sir explained the impact
security breaches can have on the public and at an organization level
 Five reason affecting Information Security
o Destruction – Changes the data
o Deletion – Data Deletion by unauthorized access
o Bugs Infection – Bug introduced in system
o Theft - Unauthorized access of data
o Corruption – Corrupt the data and render it useless
 Mechanism to take care of security threats
o Prevention
o Limitation
o Protection
 Scope of security Management system
o Identification of threat sources and possibilities of its occurrence.
o Protecting the Information and IS from unauthorized access.
o Ensure the privacy of individual and personal information.
o Check the misuse of information obtained from unauthorized access.
o Provide methods and systems to recover from damage and to put the information
system on track for normal use.

 Objective of SMS
o Minimize loss of business
o Maintain quality of information system
o Recover fast

 Threats to Information Systems

System Faliure
Human Action
Natural Calamities