cyberdefense

See also: cyberdéfense

English

From cyber- +‎ defense.

cyberdefense (countable and uncountable, plural cyberdefenses)

Defense against internet attack.
- 1999 July, Frank Vizard, “War.com”, in Popular Science‎^[1], →ISSN:
  Bombshelter would ultimately become the first line of cyberdefense for the US military and its NATO allies.
- 2009 February 15, John Markoff, “Do We Need a New Internet?”, in New York Times‎^[2]:
  That was driven home late last year, when a malicious software program thought to have been unleashed by a criminal gang in Eastern Europe suddenly appeared after easily sidestepping the world’s best cyberdefenses.

defense against internet attack