AP® Cybersecurity glossary

Avoidance

Also called: risk avoidance

Course: AP® Cybersecurity Shows up in: Unit 2: Securing Spaces

A risk strategy: stop the activity that creates the risk; impossible if the activity is critical to the mission.

Appears in the course and exam description (CED): 2.1.E.2

Why it matters in Unit 2

Stopping the activity is avoidance.

Example

A club deletes an old member database it no longer needs.

Learn it properly, with a checkpoint 2.1 Cyber Foundations

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