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What is the Cybersecurity landscape?

Cybersecurity is the collection of measures and practices taken to protect computers,


networks, programs, or systems from cyberattacks. Such attacks can take the form of malware,
denial of service, theft of data, unauthorized access, or tampering of data, and any number of
other malicious actions. The Congressional Research Service explains that in addition to
measures taken to protect systems from threats, cybersecurity may also refer to the “state or
quality of being protected” from threats, or the efforts aimed at “implementing and improving”
those measures (McAfee, 2021). The cybersecurity landscape is just a loose term like "cloud"
just used to market stuff. The threat landscape on the other hand is a well-defined and maintained
library of the "most relevant" security risks (Kurzynowski, 2020). 

References:

Kurzynowski, K. (2020). What is Cybersecurity Landscape?


https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/239573/what-is-cybersecurity-
landscape#comment492032_239573

McAfee. (2021). What is Cybersecurity? https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/security-


awareness/cybersecurity.html

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