Manmade threats question

Can someone please explain why the cissp makes a distiction betwee a manmade threat vs a politically motivated threat? Bombings are considered manmade threats but terrorist attacks are considered politically motivated threats. Why is there a distiction as far the "manmade" term is considered they are both carried out by men. Came across a question about this.

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bigdogz

Please state the source.
It just may be a tricky or poorly worded question or resource.
All of those would be considered to be Human Threats.

Threats are grouped into: Human, Natural, Technical, Physical, Environmental, and Operational.

I hope this helps.

TheFORCE

That's what i thought too but my answer was incorrect. The question was in regards to BCP, stating that you are tasks to come up with a plan against terrorist attacks and then asking what type of attack are you guarding against. The best possible answer for me was man-made attack, but the Transcender engine had politically motivated attack as the best correct answer. Their source was the Shon Harris AIO book and when i went to the book, the book did have those 2 attacks as 2 different attacks and was not considering them the same.

bigdogz

This has to be in the 6th Edition because there is nothing in the 5th. It also means that someone needs to get some updated material.
On a serious note I would challenge the questions. If you could post them in this thread, I will dig a bit.

I think the man made disaster would be due to fault or incompetence of the human(s) whereas a hostile cyber or physical attack is deliberate. NIST SP 800-30 R1 may spell it out.