Threat vs Threatscape - What's the difference?
threat | threatscape |
An expression of intent to injure or punish another.
* (William Shakespeare)
An indication of imminent danger.
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, title= A person or object that is regarded as a danger; a menace.
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, title= (label) To press; urge; compel.
(archaic) To threaten.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
* 1599 , , V. i. 37:
(label) To use threats; act or speak menacingly; threaten.
The various possible threats, the spectrum of possible threats.
* The Risk Digest from Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems archived at [http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.29.html#subj9], post by Barrett, Michael
*:"...which made me realize that perhaps there isn't a common agreement amongst the infosec industry about the threatscape and how we should prioritize our response to them."
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* 2006 Brian T. Contos, "Enemy at the water cooler: real-life stories of insider threats ..." - Page 91
*:"In my opinion, given today's threatscape , thinking of not doing anything regarding ESM is as antiquated as thinking that a firewall or even passwords aren't needed.
* 2007 David Harley, "AVIEN malware defense guide for the Enterprise" - Page 58
*:"When we emerge, blinking in the sunlight, from the Malware Museum, we find that some of these bots on the threatscape are still with us in some form."
* 2010 Richard Stiennon, "Surviving cyberwar" - Page 146-7
*:"While the Obama administration has vocalized its intent to create a cyber security coordinator, future administrations will need to institute a more powerful role to oversee all government cyber security measures and reactions to a rapidly changing cyber threatscape ."
As nouns the difference between threat and threatscape
is that threat is an expression of intent to injure or punish another while threatscape is the various possible threats, the spectrum of possible threats.As a verb threat
is (label) to press; urge; compel.threat
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), .Noun
(en noun)- There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats .
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- An hideous Geant horrible and hye, / That with his talnesse seemd to threat the skye
- O yes, and soundless too; / For you have stolen their buzzing, Antony, / And very wisely threat before you sting.