There are 12 general categories of threat to an organization's people, information, and systems. List at least six of the general categories of threat and identify at least one example of those listed.

1. Human Error: an example is disregard to safety measures.

2. Compromises to Intellectual Property: an example is piracy of an organization's product.

3. Forces of Nature: an example is earthquake.

4. Information extortion: an example is coercion or blackmail.

5. Quality of service deviation: an example is an epileptic or poor power supply.

6. Industrial espionage: an example is unethical hacking of data.

Explanation:

A threat to an organization's people, information, and systems is basically any circumstances or events that poses a potential danger, damage or adverse affect to its smooth running.

These threats can be classified into six (6) categories and these are;

1. Human Error or failure: this are errors that arise as a result of having incompetent employees (slips and lapses) or mistakes stemming from the workers. An example of human error is an employee that disregard safety measures.

2. Compromises to Intellectual Property: this usually occurs when an intellectual property is stolen illegally from an organization. An example is piracy of an organization's product.

3. Forces of Nature: this is usually caused by a natural disaster. Examples of forces of nature are flood, earthquake, fire etc.

4. Information extortion: this arises when sensitive data about an organization is held through coercion, bribery or computer hacking.

5. Quality of service deviation: this would occur when there's a shortage in the quality of service received by an organization, contrary to what is expected or required. Examples are poor power supply, poor internet service etc.

6. Industrial espionage: this is as a result of loosing sensitive data to unauthorized individuals or hackers.

so they can see what that city is producing and to also see if they can some how get that product. like gold in africa.

answer; false pretense;