Chapter 3: Understanding Today s Threats to Information Assets

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.—Sun Tzu ^[1]

Chapter Objective

"Understanding Today's Threats to Information Assets" discusses today's threats to the information and information systems of modern, global corporations and government agencies.

^[1]From Sun Tzu's Art of War. The Oldest Military Treatise in the World. Translated from the Chinese by Lionel Giles, 1910.