1.1.11 Identify a range of causes of data loss.

CS Guide teacher's notes:
Causes include malicious activities

and natural disasters.

S/E Malicious activity may be a result

of activities by employees within the

organization or intruders.


-"Information destroyed"
-unable to retrieve data storage

• Hardware corruption
• Delete files
• Misplacement
• File formats
• Failure: power (external), hardware, software
• Disaster-servers stored around world
• Data corruption
• Theft