Terms starting with “C”

Cyber-hacker group self-identifying as the digital army for ISIS

A cyber operation or series of cyber operations conducted by a single responsible party with the intention of achieving a strategic objective.

Cyber-dependent crime (crimes that can only be committed through the use of ICT devices, where the devices are both the tool for committing the crime and the target of the crime);o...

the totality of products and services that support the cyber crime ecosystem.

The prevention of cyber action by credibly demonstrating the ability and willingness to deny benefits or impose costs to convince the adversary that restraint will result in better...

An event that is likely to cause or is causing the temporary loss of normal cyber operations or services.

The interconnected information infrastructure of interactions among persons, processes, data, and information and communications technologies, along with the environment and condit...

The manipulation, disruption, denial, degradation, or destruction of data, computers, information or communication systems, networks, physical or virtual infrastructure controlled...

Cyber operation whose primary purpose is to steal information for national security or commercial purposes.

A planned event during which an organization simulates a cyber disruption to develop or test capabilities such as preventing, detecting, mitigating, responding to or recovering fro...

Free cybersecurity services to help organizations reduce their exposure to threats by taking a proactive approach to monitoring and mitigating attack vectors.

Actions taken through the use of an information system or network that result in an actual or potentially adverse effect on an information system, network, and/or the information r...

incident response plan

The use of cyber operations to shape the perceptions or behavior of targeted audiences while maintaining plausible deniability.

An electronic information and communications systems and services and the information contained therein.

The systematic process of identifying, collecting, preserving, analyzing, and presenting digital evidence to detect, understand, and prosecute crimes or security incidents conducte...

An umbrella term to describe cyber attack, cyber espionage, cyber influence, or cyber defense, and intrusions or activities with unknown intent.

In the NICE Framework, cybersecurity work where a person: Performs activities to gather evidence on criminal or foreign intelligence entities in order to mitigate possible or real-...

in the NICE Framework, cybersecurity work where a person: Performs in-depth joint targeting and cyber planning process. Gathers information and develops detailed Operational Plans...

The overall ability of systems and organisations to withstand cyber events and, where harm is caused, recover from them. (UK 2016)

A new fund, administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency but directed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Cyber Recovery Fund disbursement would be...

Risk of financial loss, legal liability, reputational damage, regulatory action, operational disruption, or damage from the failure of the digital technologies employed for informa...

The protection of information systems against unauthorized access to or modification of information contained therein, and against the denial of service to authorized users, includ...

Competitions encouraging people to test their skills and to consider a career in cyber. (UK 2016)