{"id":310,"date":"2024-02-12T23:54:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T23:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/porter-doughty\/?p=310"},"modified":"2024-02-12T23:54:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T23:54:36","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-a-threat-and-an-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/porter-doughty\/2024\/02\/12\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-threat-and-an-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between a threat and an attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"The terms &#8220;threat&#8221; and &#8220;vulnerability&#8221; directly associate with one another. A threat is the prospect of damage being done and in the context this includes a possible hack, or cyber attack. Vulnerabilities are the means by which these threats become attacks and deal damage. <br \/><br \/>It only comes from experience and applying these methods can we determine the best preventative actions to take against them in case they were ever used against a system maliciously. ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The terms &#8220;threat&#8221; and &#8220;vulnerability&#8221; directly associate with one another. A threat is the prospect of damage being done and in the context this includes a possible hack, or cyber attack. Vulnerabilities are the means by which these threats become attacks and deal damage. It only comes from experience and applying these methods can we&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/porter-doughty\/2024\/02\/12\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-threat-and-an-attack\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":27427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/porter-doughty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/porter-doughty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/porter-doughty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/porter-doughty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/porter-doughty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/porter-doughty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/porter-doughty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/porter-doughty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/porter-doughty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/porter-doughty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}