Question

What are threats in information security?

Answer 1

A threat, in the context of computer security, refers to anything that has the potential to cause serious harm to a computer system. A threat is something that may or may not happen, but has the potential to cause serious damage. Threats can lead to attacks on computer systems, networks and more.

Answer 2

the main threat is unawareness of the user
hackers make use of their skills to get acquainted with people and try to utilise them to get the IT part this is called as social engineering attack;next is the user not aware of the updates released like those security patches and new firewall protocols for example how many of us know about a simple program that can hack down almost any phone using its bluetooth none of us or most of us havent even updated our cells ;and next is the unavailability of the servers to manage internet traffic in india most of our servers are not even equipied with loadbalancers lbd which manage
the traffic this can easily lead to a denial of service attack or a dos attack

so keep calm google things spend money get info and keep a keen eye on ur pc