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infosec en · NOUN

Etymology

A contraction.

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable) Abbreviation of information security.
    • Analysis of the intersection between infosec and computer forensics. 2005, Robert Schperberg, Kenneth C Brancik, Cybercrime: Incident Response and Digital Forensics:
    • This was just plain deceitful and wrong, but the infosec people were too clueless ... This hampered infosec's ability to apply modern analysis techniques […] 2006, Gary McGraw, Software Security: Building Security In:
    • Information security (infosec) is "the protection of information and its critical elements, including the systems and hardware that use, store, and transmit […] 2006, Jack R Greene, The Encyclopedia of Police Science:
    • The plan also emphasizes technology transfer to the infosec side of NSA […] 1999, Fred B Schneider, Trust in Cyberspace:

Coordinates

netsec