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IHU

Short for Internal Hostile Unstructured, it is a threat defined by Symantec Corporation to mean an individual within an organization who has physical access to network components. An IHU threat might lack the skills to launch a sophisticated attack, and instead might deploy common viruses.

Contrast with IHS (InternalHostile Structured).



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