Adversary
nounid
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Individual, group, organization, or government that conducts or has the intent to conduct detrimental activities.
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat92%rule-basedr:entity.threat.actor.v1
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- 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.
Outgoing relationships
- related
- →attackernoun
- →Threat agentnoun
Incoming relationships
- related
- ←Threat agentnoun
- ←attackernoun