is often used as a blanket term). A threat actor who is an individual or group that can perform the threat action, such as exploiting a vulnerability to actualise a negative impact. An exploit is a vulnerability that a threat actor used to cause an incident.

Phenomenology

The term "threat" relates to some other basic security terms as shown in the following diagram:

A resource (both physical or logical) can have one or more

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