ecurity

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For other uses, see Security (disambiguation).

Women's Army Corps (1941–1945) associated national security with avoiding conversations about war

work.

Security is freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other

unwanted coercive change) caused by others. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of
security may be of persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems
or any other entity or phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change.

Refugees fleeing war and insecurity in Iraq and Syria arrive at Lesbos Island, supported by Spanish
volunteers, 2015

Security mostly refers to protection from hostile forces, but it has a wide range of
other senses: for example, as the absence of harm (e.g. freedom from want); as the
presence of an essential good (e.g. food security); as resilience against potential
damage or harm (e.g. secure foundations); as secrecy (e.g. a secure telephone line);
as containment (e.g. a secure room or cell); and as a state of mind (e.g. emotional
security).
The term is also used to refer to acts and systems whose purpose may be to provide
security (e.g.: security companies, security forces, security guard, cyber security
systems, security cameras, remote guarding).
Security is not only physical but it can also be Virtual.

Contents

 1Etymology

 2Overview

o 2.1Referent

o 2.2Context

o 2.3Capabilities

o 2.4Effects

o 2.5Contested approaches

 3Contexts of security (examples)

o 3.1Computer security

o 3.2Corporate security

o 3.3Ecological security

o 3.4Food security

o 3.5Home security

o 3.6Human security

o 3.7National security

 4Perceptions of security

 5Security concepts (examples)

 6See also

 7References

 8External links
Etymology[edit]
The word 'secure' entered the English language in the 16th century. [1] It is derived
from Latin securus, meaning freedom from anxiety: se (without) + cura (care,
anxiety).[1]

Overview[edit]
Referent[edit]
A security referent is the focus of a security policy or discourse; for example, a
referent may be a potential beneficiary (or victim) of a security policy or system.
Security referents may be persons or social groups, objects, institutions,
ecosystems, or any other phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change by the forces
of its environment.[2] The referent in question may combine many referents, in the
same way that, for example, a nation state is composed of many individual citizens. [3]
Context[edit]
The security context is the relationships between a security referent and its
environment.[2] From this perspective, security and insecurity depend first on whether
the environment is beneficial or hostile to the referent, and also how capable is the
referent of responding to its/their environment in order to survive and thrive. [3]
Capabilities[edit]
The means by which a referent provides for security (or is provided for) vary widely.
They include, for example:

 Coercive capabilities, including the capacity to project coercive power into the
environment (e.g. aircraft carrier, handgun, firearms);
 Protective systems (e.g. lock, fence, wall, antivirus software, air defence
system, armour)
 Warning systems (e.g. alarm, radar)
 Diplomatic and social action intended to prevent insecurity from developing
(e.g. conflict prevention and transformation strategies); and
 Policy intended to develop the lasting economic, physical, ecological and other
conditions of security (e.g. economic reform, ecological protection, progressive
demilitarization, militarization).
Effects[edit]
Any action intended to provide security may have multiple effects. For example, an
action may have wide benefit, enhancing security for several or all security referents
in the context; alternatively, the action may be effective only temporarily, or benefit
one referent at the expense of another, or be entirely ineffective or
counterproductive.
Contested approaches

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Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that
are programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions. The term may also be applied
to any machine that exhibits traits associated with a human mind such as learning and
problem-solving.

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