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=Physical Threats To Data=

A physical threat to data is something physical that can damadge data and computers. These are some example of physical damadge to data.
 * material instability
 * improper storage environment (temperature, humidity, light, dust)
 * overuse (mainly for physical contact media)
 * natural disaster (fire, flood, earthquake)
 * infrastructure failure (plumbing, electrical, climate control)
 * inadequate hardware maintenance
 * hardware malfunction
 * human error (including improper handling)
 * sabotage (theft, vandalism)

A physical threat can happen for different reasons.
 * Origin
 * Deliberate: aiming at information asset
 * spying
 * illegal processing of data
 * accidental
 * equipment failure
 * software failure
 * environmental
 * natural event
 * loss of power supply

How to pretect data against physical threats. Physicle things can only danger the data in one system to pretect data you should back up data on different systems. For example if someones laptop was destroyed in a flood they would lose there data unless they had backed up the data on a different system somewere else.

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