Adversary
nounid
1455·updated May 9, 2026verified
Individual, group, organization, or government that conducts or has the intent to conduct detrimental activities.
Attested in
No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat92%rule-basedr:entity.threat.actor.v1
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- opponent
- plural
- Adversaries
- possessive
- Adversary's
- pluralpossessive
- Adversaries'
Framework definitions
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
- §1
- An individual, group, organization, or government that conducts or has the intent to conduct detrimental activities.
- §1
- A threat agent
- §1
- Individual, group, organization, or government that conducts or has the intent to conduct detrimental activities.
- §1
- Individual, group, organization, or government that conducts or has the intent to conduct detrimental activities.
- §1
- someone who offers opposition
- §1 · legacy_primary
- Individual, group, organization, or government that conducts or has the intent to conduct detrimental activities.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
Outgoing relationships
- related
- →attackernoun
- →Threat agentnoun
Incoming relationships
- related
- ←Threat agentnoun
- ←attackernoun