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Computer networks are vulnerable to various types of physical threats. Outline four types of these threats

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Physical Threats
• material instability.
• improper storage environment (temperature, humidity, light, dust)
• overuse (mainly for physical contact media)
• natural disaster (fire, flood, earthquake)
• infrastructure failure (plumbing, electrical, climate control)
• inadequate hardware maintenance.
• hardware malfunction.

Titany answered the question on November 30, 2021 at 11:24

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