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What are the threats?
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Okay, by now you must be prepped and ready for some of the scarier stuff. We’ve given you a good idea of the importance of information security, but what are the threats? And how can we identify them?
Well, although InfoSec threats are many and varied in nature, we can broadly categorize them into 4 types:
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Social engineering attacks
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Malware
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Network security threats
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Supply chain attacks
Let’s look into what each of them are, and how they’re different.
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