What Is a Threat? | Cyber Security Basics for Absolute Beginners

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???? What is a threat in cyber security?

A threat is anything capable of causing harm to an account, device, network, application, system, or data.

In this 10-second beginner lesson, you’ll learn:
• THREAT = a potential source of harm
• Threats can target different digital assets
• A threat does not automatically mean an attack has succeeded

CORE MODEL:
THREAT → DIGITAL ASSET → POTENTIAL HARM

This Short builds the cyber security foundation needed to understand how threats connect with vulnerabilities, exploits, and risk.

▶️ CONTINUE WITH:
Threat, Vulnerability, Exploit and Risk Basics — 1 Minute

That canonical lesson explains how a threat can meet a weakness, how an exploit uses that weakness, and how likelihood plus impact become cyber security risk.

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