Motivation and the resources for carrying out an attack make humans potentially dangerous threat-sources. Table 3-1 presents an overview of many of today’s common human threats, their possible motivations, and the methods or threat actions by which they might carry out an attack. This information will be useful to organizations studying their human threat environments and customizing their human threat statements. In addition, reviews of the history of system break-ins; security violation reports; incident reports; and interviews with the system administrators, help desk personnel, and user community during information gathering will help identify human threat-sources that have the potential to.
