Considering the Threat Environment
Chapter 2 considered threats to your data, while Chapter 3 considered threats to your application and model. This chapter considers the threats to your environment as a whole and divides environments into two parts: business and consumer. Business threats focus on the ability to earn money, serve clients, provide a useful infrastructure, and address business requirements (such as accounting and meeting legal needs). Consumer threats focus on communication between individuals, entertainment, buying products, and addressing personal needs (such as interacting with government entities or making appointments with your doctor).
(And, yes, you need to worry about the consumer element because your users will always incorporate consumer elements into the business environment.)
The previous chapters examined parts of the whole to make the threats easier to see and understand. This chapter is an introduction to the whole picture, of how things work together...
