'The Internet issue'

Earlier this year I wrote a retrospective on Y2K and said that I'd be back to talk about what is surely the biggest cluster of information risks facing the world over two decades on, namely those associated with the Internet.

Well OK, so it has taken me a couple of months to get around to it but anyway here goes.

Threats

Malicious individuals
Malicious groups
Accidents and natural events

Vulnerabilities

Shared resource
Insecure base
Naivete

Impacts

Extreme dependence
Cascading effects
Catastrophic outages

Preventive controls

Detective controls

Corrective controls

Technical controls

Procedural controls

Administrative controls