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| Security is the degree of protection against danger, loss, and criminals. |
Security
has to be compared and contrasted with other related concepts: Safety,
continuity, reliability. The key difference between security and
reliability is that security must take into account the actions of
people attempting to cause destruction. |
Security
as a state or condition is resistance to harm. From an objective
perspective, it is a structure's actual (conceptual, and never fully
knowable) degree of resistance to harm. That condition derives from the
structure's relationship (vulnerability, distance, insulation,
protection) to threats in its environment. From a subjective
perspective, security is the perception or belief that a valued
structure has sufficient objective security. The subjective meaning of
security as "freedom from anxiety or fear" resonates in the origins of
the word. Latin "Se-Cura," means literally "without care" as in
"carefree." |
Security
as a form of protection are structures and processes that provide or
improve security as a condition. The Institute for Security and Open
Methodologies (ISECOM) in the OSSTMM 3 defines security as "a form of
protection where a separation is created between the assets and the
threat. This includes but is not limited to the elimination of either
the asset or the threat. In order to be secure, either the asset is
physically removed from the threat or the threat is physically removed
from the asset. |
Security
as a national condition was defined in a United Nations study (1986) as
“a state at which countries think that there is no danger of military
attack, political pressure, or economic coercion, so that they can
develop and progress freely. |
* With respect to classified matter, the condition that prevents
unauthorized persons from having access to official information that is
safeguarded in the interests of national security. |
* Measures taken by a military unit, an activity or installation to
protect itself against all acts designed to, or which may, impair its
effectiveness. |
Security
of person or security of the person is a human right guaranteed by the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in
1948. It is also a right respected in the Constitution of Canada, the
Constitution of South Africa and other laws around the world. |
In
general, the right to security of person is associated with liberty and
includes a right to habeas corpus. Security of person can also be seen
as an expansion of rights based on prohibitions of torture and cruel
and unusual punishment. Rights to security of person can guard against
less lethal conduct, and can be used in regard to prisoners' rights. |
Safety
is the state of being "safe" (from French sauf), the condition of being
protected against physical, social, spiritual, financial, political,
emotional, occupational, psychological, educational or other types or
consequences of failure, damage, error, accidents, harm or any other
event which could be considered non-desirable. This can take the form
of being protected from the event or from exposure to something that
causes health or economical losses. It can include protection of people
or of possessions. |
