Week 1 assignment
1) Threat, risk, hazard, and peril all fall under the same category but have different meanings. A threat is an intention of causing harm. A risk is a situation with possible danger. A hazard is danger or risk itself. Peril is severe and abrupt danger. I will build a scenario to show the use of these words in proper context. A military network does not have a physical firewall nor a software based antivirus. The threat is other countries wanting to inflict damage to this military base via cyber warfare. The risk needs two things, the threat which we just established, and vulnerability which is the lack of security measures in place within the network. The hazard is the danger of crippling the military network and or the sensitive information being lost to the attackers. The network is now under a denial of service attack inflicted by hackers from North Korea. The network is now under Peril. Overall these words are sometimes used in place of each other even though they have a specific context that they should be used in.

2) There are many things that are considered threats, risks, hazards, and perils in my organization. Working on a military base presents a great amount of these things. Our Security team must prepare to defend the environment from the threats of terrorism, active shooters, natural disasters, cyber-attacks, and more. They have a constant risk of personnel getting killed, buildings getting destroyed, and information getting stolen. The organization attempts to prevent hazards by educating personnel into using safe methods such as not sitting with your back to a door, not running cables across the middle of a room, keeping dangerous chemicals in a safe temperature controlled room, not writing down or sharing log on credentials, not providing sensitive information over the phone or email without encrypting it, and many more