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cyber risk

Definition(s):

  The risk of depending on cyber resources (i.e., the risk of depending on a system or system elements that exist in or intermittently have a presence in cyberspace).
Source(s):
NIST SP 800-160 Vol. 2 Rev. 1

  Risk of financial loss, operational disruption, or damage, from the failure of the digital technologies employed for informational and/or operational functions introduced to a manufacturing system via electronic means from the unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction of the manufacturing system.
Source(s):
NISTIR 8183 under Cyber Risk
NISTIR 8183 Rev. 1 under Cyber Risk
NISTIR 8183A Vol. 1 under Cyber Risk
NISTIR 8183A Vol. 2 under Cyber Risk
NISTIR 8183A Vol. 3 under Cyber Risk

  The risk of depending on cyber resources, i.e., the risk of depending on a system or system elements which exist in or intermittently have a presence in cyberspace.
Source(s):
NIST SP 800-160 Vol. 2 [Superseded]