cybersecurity

Definitions

Security against electronic attacks such as cyberwarfare or cyberterrorism.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“She now works for […] one of the largest of the many cybersecurity firms seeking to neutralize attacks on corporations from China and other countries, as well as criminal groups and hackers.”

“He said he would shun ground wars with large troop deployments, instead favoring a strategy guided more by economic and cybersecurity competition with China and Russia […]”

“However, there remain⟳ many cybersecurity concerns about the railways. For example, and perhaps more pertinently, 'hacktivists' - hackers with a political rather than a financial motive - in Belarus were reported to have⟳ taken breached computers that control⟳ rail movements in the country in an effort to delay⟳ Russian supplies to their front line in the early stages of the war against Ukraine.”

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