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Security in Computing 5th Edition by Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Charles P Pfleeger, Jonathan Margulies

Edition 5ISBN: 0134085043
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Security in Computing 5th Edition by Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Charles P Pfleeger, Jonathan Margulies

Edition 5ISBN: 0134085043
Exercise 15

List five kinds of harm that could occur to your own personal computer. Estimate the likelihood of each, expressed in number of times per year (number of times could be a fraction, for example, 1/2 means could be expected to happen once every two years). Estimate the monetary loss that would occur from that harm. Compute the expected annual loss from these kinds of harm.

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Harms to Personal Computer

Harms to personal computer can be defined as the possible damages that can be caused to the computers. Five possible harms that can be caused to the system are given below:

• Disk drive failure

• RAM failure

• Overheating of the system

• Malicious attacks such as through viruses

• SMPS failure

• System software failure


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