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cyber security  

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  • The term cyber security denotes a number of activities, measures, and techniques developed to protect from attacks, service interruptions, and other threats to computers, computer networks, and information they contain and exchange, as well as software, data, and other elements of cyberspace. Therefore, this term refers to united efforts and attempts, which include research and analyses, with the aim of inventing new technologies and improving the existing activities related to the security of cyberspace and the level of its protection from cyber threats. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crisis Management; Cyber Security]

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