cybersecurity

cybersecurity

English

Etymology

cyber- +‎ security

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /saɪbəsɪˈkjʊəɹɪtɪ/

Noun

cybersecurity (uncountable)

1. Security against electronic attacks such as cyberwarfare or cyberterrorism.
   • 2014 April 6, David E. Sanger, “U.S. tries candor to assure China on cyberattacks”, in The New York Times‎:

     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.

   • 2021 September 1, Michael D. Shear; Jim Tankersley, quoting Joe Biden, “Biden Defends Afghan Pullout and Declares an End to Nation-Building”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     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 […]

Synonyms

• cyber

Translations

security against electronic attacks such as cyberwarfare

Armenian: կիբերանվտանգություն (kiberanvtangutʿyun) Catalan: ciberseguretat f Chinese: Mandarin: 網絡安全, 网络安全 (wǎngluò ānquán) Czech: kyberbezpečnost f Danish: cybersikkerhed c Dutch: cyberbeveiliging f Finnish: kyberturvallisuus (fi) French: cybersécurité (fr) Galician: ciberseguridade f German: Cybersicherheit f, Cybersecurity f Greek: κυβερνοασφάλεια (el) f (kyvernoasfáleia) Hungarian: kiberbiztonság (hu) Icelandic: netöryggi n Italian: cybersicurezza f Japanese: サイバーセキュリティ (saibāsekyuriti) Kazakh: киберқауіпсіздік (kiberqauıpsızdık) Korean: 사이버보안 (saibeoboan) Norwegian: Bokmål: cybersikkerhet f Polish: cyberbezpieczeństwo n Portuguese: cibersegurança f Russian: кибербезопа́сность (ru) f (kiberbezopásnostʹ) Serbo-Croatian: cyber sigurnost f Spanish: ciberseguridad f Swedish: cybersäkerhet c Thai: ความมั่นคงปลอดภัยไซเบอร์ Ukrainian: кібербезпе́ка f (kiberbezpéka)