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threats and risks form using ict in a company:

- theft is a risk because when the computers are stolen the insurance can take a long duration of time which can put the company at risk of loosing valuable costumers and also when the insurance money comes it may not cover the cost of the computers to replace them. further more if the computers are taken the staff will be affected because there is no equipment or income coming in basically out of work.

-viruses corrupt files and damage the company's/costumers information, this leads the costumers not thinking the company is trust worthy to hold all their personal information. also the company may not be able to get all the information back if they never backed up the files in the first place.

-user error is to do with new employees, if the new employers aren't trained properly they may delete files and might not be able to get them back.

-corrupt file if it gets a virus and you don't have the work backed up may also not be backed and could of lost important information