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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Essential Terminology

Essential Terminology
  • Threat - An action or event that might prejudice security. A threat is a potential violation of security.

  • Vulnerability - Existence of a weakness, design, or implementation error that can lead to an unexpected, undesirable event compromising the security of the system.

  • Target of Evaluation - An IT system, product, or component that is identified/subjected as requiring security evaluation.

  • Attack - An assault on system security that derives from an intelligent threat. An attack is any action that attempts to or violates security.

  • Exploit - A defined way to breach the security of an IT system through vulnerability.


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    Amarjit Singh

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