Glossary

Crisis Management

Crisis management is an organization’s process and strategy-based approach for identifying and responding to a critical event.

Cyber Breach

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Cyber Event

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Data Breach

The loss of control, compromise, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized acquisition, or any similar occurrence where: a person other than an authorized user accesses or potentially accesses personally identifiable information; or an authorized user accesses personally identifiable information for another than authorized purpose.

IT Incident

An event that causes disruption to or a reduction in the quality of a service.

Incident

An occurrence that actually or imminently jeopardizes, without lawful authority, the integrity, confidentiality, or availability of information or an information system; or constitutes a violation or imminent threat of violation of law, security policies, security procedures, or acceptable use policies.

Incident Management

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Incident Response

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LitRPG

LitRPG, short for literary role-playing game, is a literary genre combining the conventions of computer RPGs with science-fiction and fantasy novels.