Cyber Security

Definitions

European Definitions

Cyber-security commonly refers to the safeguards and actions that can be used to protect the cyber domain, both in the civilian and military fields, from those threats that are associated with or that may harm its interdependent networks and information infrastructure. Cyber-security strives to preserve the availability and integrity of the networks and infrastructure and the confidentiality of the information contained therein .

National Definitions

Australia

Measures relating to the confidentiality, availability and integrity of information that is processed, stored and communicated by electronic or similar means .

Austria

Cyber security describes the protection of a key legal asset through constitutional means against actor-related, technical, organisational and natural dangers posing a risk to the security of cyberspace (including infrastructure and data security) as well as the security of the users in cyberspace. Cyber security helps to identify, assess and follow up on threats as well as to strengthen the ability to cope with interferences in or from cyber space, to minimise the effects as well as to restore the capacity to act and functional capabilities of the respective stakeholders, infrastructures and services.

Germany

(Global) cyber security is the desired condition of the IT security situation, in which the risks of the global cyberspace have been reduced to an acceptable minimum .

Cyber security in Germany is thus the desired condition of the IT security situation, in which the risks of the German cyberspace have been reduced to an acceptable minimum. Cyber security (in Germany) is developed through the sum of suitable and adequate safeguards.

Definition in German:

(Globale) Cyber-Sicherheit ist der anzustrebende Zustand der IT-Sicherheitslage, in welchem die Risiken des globalen Cyber-Raums auf ein tragbares Maß reduziert sind. Cyber-Sicherheit in Deutschland ist demnach der anzustrebende Zustand der IT-Sicherheitslage, in welchem die Risiken des deutschen Cyber-Raums auf ein tragbares Maß reduziert sind. Cyber-Sicherheit (in Deutschland) entsteht durch die Summe von geeigneten und angemessenen Maßnahmen. .

Jamaica

Cyber Security is the implementation of measures to protect ICT infrastructure including critical infrastructure from intrusion, unauthorized access and includes the adoption of policies, protocols and good practices to better govern the use of cyberspace.

Kenya

Cyber Security is defined as the processes and mechanisms by which computer-based equipment, information and services are protected from unintended or unauthorized access, change or destruction.

Netherlands

Cyber security refers to efforts to prevent damage caused by disruptions to, breakdowns in or misuse of ICT and to repair damage if and when it has occurred .

Such damage may consist of any or all of the following: reduced reliability of ICT, limited availability and violation of the confidentiality and/or integrity of information stored in the ICT systems.

Cyber security is het vrij zijn van gevaar of schade veroorzaakt door verstoring of uitval van ICT of door misbruik van ICT..

USA

The prevention of damage to, unauthorized use of, or exploitation of, and, if needed, the restoration of electronic information and communications systems and the information contained therein to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability; includes protection and restoration, when needed, of information networks and wireline, wireless, satellite, public safety answering points, and 911 communications systems and control systems .

Alternatively,

The ability to protect or defend the use of cyberspace from cyber attacks .

Other Definition(s)

World Economic Forum

The analysis, warning, Information Sharing, vulnerability reduction, risk mitigation and recovery efforts for networked information systems.

See also

• Cyber Resilience
• Information Security