Cyber-security is also sometimes conflated inappropriately in public discussion with other concepts such as privacy, information sharing, intelligence gathering, and surveillance. Privacy is associated with the ability of an individual person to control access by others to information about.
The act of protecting ICT systems and their contents has come to be known as cyber-security. A broad and arguably somewhat fuzzy concept, cybersecurity can be a useful term but tends to defy precise definition. It usually refers to one or more of three things: A set of activities and other measures intended to protect—from attack, disruption, or other threats—computers, computer networks, related hardware and devices software and the information they contain and communicate, including software and data, as well as other elements of cyberspace.2 The state or quality of being protected from such threats. The broad field of endeavor aimed at implementing and improving those activities and quality.3 It is related to but not generally regarded as identical to the concept of information
